After Being Diagnosed With Bipolar as a Teen Within 15 Minutes, Azi Reclaims Her Health

Dr. Azi Jankovic is an educator, speaker, and author of the bestselling book Mental Health Reclaimed: A Simple Guide to Thriving Beyond Labels or Limits. She writes about mental health, motherhood, and healing beyond the conventional paradigm. Follow her work at https://azijankovic.com or on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.azi.jankovic/ *⏱ Timestamps* 00:00 – XXXX Visit the Stories section of our website to watch and read more exclusive stories about people with firsthand experience of the mental health industry—accounts of harm and hope, breakdown and breakthrough: https://www.theinnercompass.org/stories *How Inner Compass Initiative can help you:* - Learn about psychiatric diagnoses, drugs, tapering, and withdrawal through our unique, free, no-strings-attached resources: https://www.theinnercompass.org/ - Join others like you exploring these issues together through our private digital mutual aid platform, Inner Compass Exchange. It offers regular video calls by and for people who've left or are leaving the mental health system including stopping psychiatric drugs, exclusive events and content, and most of all, a new path forward: https://exchange.theinnercompass.org - We'd love to connect with you on our social media. Join us there where we'll share with you reflections on psychiatric drug tapering and withdrawal, insights into leaving the mental health system, important news about developments in the mental health industry, and much, much more: ~ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/innercompassinitiative/ ~ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_innercompass ~ X: https://www.twitter.com/_innercompass #psychiatrized #psychiatry #mentalhealth #ssris #ssritapering #ssriwithdrawal #benzos #benzodiazepines #benzotapering #benzowithdrawal

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0:00 The start of a lifelong prescription: Untested drugs, unquestioned.
0:22 The breaking point: Handcuffed, dragged, and the fight to reclaim power.
1:26 Two decades as an "A+ patient": Living with an early bipolar diagnosis.
3:33 The "chemical imbalance" diagnosis: Prescribed Prozac for depression.
6:07 Prozac's hidden cost: Energy gained, emotional numbness endured.
11:30 A shocking diagnosis: Bipolar 1 in 15 minutes, leading to lifelong drugs.
18:22 Trapped and "brain-dead": The stark reality of a forced psychiatric ward stay.
25:00 The turning point: Abandoning failed treatments for an alternative healing journey.
27:00 Fired but enlightened: Uncovering vital truths about brain health and nutrition.

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