Bipolar She with Janine Noel

After a decade of pounding the pavement, Janine abandons the acting dream and heads to the desert to be a writer. Can this new identity save her from another psychotic break? Will it allow her to get a step ahead of bipolar illness? What if the key to her stability isn't a prescription, but a creature who teaches her the true value of sanity? Janine also gets real about her structured life to...

After leaving her New York acting dreams behind, Janine still has a plan for success. The instant she feels physically and mentally fit, she takes on Hollywood. Suddenly, she's cast in an LA play that's headed back to New York and may bring an Off-Broadway credit her way.  At the mercy of a radical psychiatrist, Janine must keep her thrilled head on straight while the celebrity stars ali...

It's 2000, summer in New York City, exactly five years after Dartmouth. For Janine, depression and psychosis in college was a one-time deal. For three years, she's been chasing her dream of being an actor, and with a big performance coming up, she's as close to success as she's ever been. Thrilled with life and buzzing through the city, Janine's world shifts...but can you...

Host Janine talks with JD about her time at Dartmouth College when she experienced symptoms of depression and psychosis for the first time. She also talks about the imperfect act of memory and recall, of delusion and imagination, and getting well. You may notice a swift change in seasons, when Janine’s memory of a summer hospitalization is told as if it were a freezing winter day. Because that’s w...

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