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Your Sanity or Your Kidneys (Revisited)
Manage episode 123482006 series 90783
Jaime Lowe started taking lithium when she was 17, after a manic episode landed her in a psychiatric ward. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, andor more than 20 years, the drug has been her near-constant companion.
“It’s hard to know if lithium is actually -- like, if it dampens my personality, or if it normalizes my personality, or if it allows me to just sort of be who I am,” she says.
But now the drug that keeps Jaime sane is also making her sick. She faces a choice that’s not much of choice at all: an eventual kidney transplant, or giving up the drug.
83 episodes
Manage episode 123482006 series 90783
Jaime Lowe started taking lithium when she was 17, after a manic episode landed her in a psychiatric ward. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, andor more than 20 years, the drug has been her near-constant companion.
“It’s hard to know if lithium is actually -- like, if it dampens my personality, or if it normalizes my personality, or if it allows me to just sort of be who I am,” she says.
But now the drug that keeps Jaime sane is also making her sick. She faces a choice that’s not much of choice at all: an eventual kidney transplant, or giving up the drug.
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