2020-01-16
22 分钟Modern.
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This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
This month we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes of modern love, the podcast that have been adapted for television.
This week, we'll go back to a story by Terry Chaney.
It's about dating while living with bipolar disorder.
It's episode three of the Amazon Show.
Actor Rebecca hall read Terry's essay for the podcast back in 2016.
You may know Rebecca as Vicky in Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
She also stars in the upcoming thriller the nighthouse.
As a bipolar woman, I have lived much of my life in a constant state of becoming someone else.
The precise term for my disorder is ultra radian rapid cycler, which means that without medication, I am at the mercy of my own spectacular mood swings.
Up for days, charming, talkative, effusive, funny and productive, but never sleeping and ultimately hard to be around.
Then down and essentially immobile for weeks at a time.
This darkness started for me in high school when I simply couldnt get out of bed one morning.
No problem, except I stayed there for 21 days.
As this pattern continued, my parents, friends, and teachers grew concerned, but they just thought that I was eccentric.