40: You Aren’t Bipolar, You Have Bipolar: Margaux Baumgarten on Identity, Motherhood, and Mental Health
What does it look like to build a full life while living with bipolar I, especially when the diagnosis comes at just 16 years old?
Emily sits down with mental health advocate and mother of two Margaux Baumgarten to talk about bipolar disorder, identity, motherhood, relationships, and learning to advocate for yourself through different seasons of mental health. Margaux shares how a manic episode during high school led to her bipolar I diagnosis and eventually to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, an experience that later became part of her advocacy around the troubled teen industry…
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