S3E4: Severe and Persistent Mental Illness with Kirpa Singh
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02/23/21 • 40 min
Join us to talk with Kirpa Singh (@writtenbykirpasingh), who reached out to us to share her experiences living with schizoaffective disorder. We touch upon her whole journey from elementary school to adulthood learning about and getting care for her severe mental illness, and how her experience has been informed by culturally-incompetent medical professionals, Desi parents, friends, co-workers and more! CONTENT WARNING: In this episode, we discuss suicidality and experiences with severe mental illness including paranoia and depression.
Kirpa Singh can be found at writtenbykirpasingh.com, and is in the process of writing her first book, Reality Check!
In this episode, we also mention the book "The Center Cannot Hold" by Elyn Saks. Check it out!
If you or someone you know is in danger of suicide, please call the suicide prevention hotline in the US: 1-800-273-8255, or find international hotlines here: https://www.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines.
Intro and Outro Music adapted from: "DJ" by Jazzhar, under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License.
Join us to talk with Kirpa Singh (@writtenbykirpasingh), who reached out to us to share her experiences living with schizoaffective disorder. We touch upon her whole journey from elementary school to adulthood learning about and getting care for her severe mental illness, and how her experience has been informed by culturally-incompetent medical professionals, Desi parents, friends, co-workers and more! CONTENT WARNING: In this episode, we discuss suicidality and experiences with severe mental illness including paranoia and depression.
Kirpa Singh can be found at writtenbykirpasingh.com, and is in the process of writing her first book, Reality Check!
In this episode, we also mention the book "The Center Cannot Hold" by Elyn Saks. Check it out!
If you or someone you know is in danger of suicide, please call the suicide prevention hotline in the US: 1-800-273-8255, or find international hotlines here: https://www.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines.
Intro and Outro Music adapted from: "DJ" by Jazzhar, under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License.
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