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Living With Bipolar 1 and Faith: Denise Pimentel on Mania, Psychosis, and the Book That Came Out of It
Denise Pimentel was diagnosed with bipolar 1 in her late twenties, after an abusive marriage, postpartum, and weaning her son converged into an episode that put her in the hospital. She's been hospitalized four times since, had a life-altering stroke in December 2024, and finished the memoir she started during a manic episode in 2017. In this episode she talks about living with bipolar 1 as a woman of faith, what a manic episode actually looks like from the inside, and what it cost her when people told her she just wasn't praying enough.
Denise is a writer, educator, speaker, advocate, and…
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