Making the Mess the Message: a Conversation with Mental Health Advocate Paris Prynkiewicz, Host of Crooked Illness
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English - June 03, 2021 13:00 - 49 minutes - 29.4 MBMental Health Health & Fitness Education Self-Improvement feminist coaching psychology staff development self development public speaking teaching encouragement women leadership mental health Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this week’s episode, Jenny speaks with Paris Prynkiewicz, mental health advocate and host of the Crooked Illness podcast. Paris gives us powerful insight into what it’s like to go from being a patient in a psychiatric hospital at 19 to coming back to work in the very same hospital just a few years later.
1:50 What is Crooked Illness?
4:30 How being a patient prepared Paris to on the other side
9:00 Experiencing fear of being recognized at the clinic
14:00 Empathy and vulnerability
18:25 Balance of oversharing and being honest about mental health
20:00 "There’s more to me than being bipolar."
26:30 Journey to figuring out a bipolar diagnosis
30:20 Commonality of being misdiagnosed
33:50 The decision to tell her story
39:00 Paris’s book and mental health resources
46:20 Gratitude
Connect with Paris at:
https://www.instagram.com/crookedillness/
Connect with Jenny at:
www.instagram.com/dothefirework
www.twitter.com/dothefirework
Resources mentioned:
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone book by Lori Gottlieb https://amzn.to/34DhAS3
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) https://nami.org/Home
Gratitude journal https://www.facebook.com/groups/460337595106440/files