What Happens When You Stop Fighting Your Diagnosis? Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health Recovery & Acceptance with Reza Ghaemi

2026-09-30 · 39 min · episode 114 · 17 entities

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→ authored Bipolar Is My Superpower: How Acceptance Changed My Life book

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author of Bipolar Is My Superpower: How Acceptance Changed My Life and host of The Rez Podcast
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author of Bipolar Is My Superpower: How Acceptance Changed My Life and host of The Rez Podcast
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Link in episode "What Happens When You Stop Fighting Your Diagnosis? Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health Recovery & Acceptance with Reza Ghaemi": https://lisalacy.com/
→ references rezpodcast.com website

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Link in episode "What Happens When You Stop Fighting Your Diagnosis? Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health Recovery & Acceptance with Reza Ghaemi": https://rezpodcast.com/

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Link in episode "What Happens When You Stop Fighting Your Diagnosis? Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health Recovery & Acceptance with Reza Ghaemi": https://lisalacy.com/
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Link in episode "What Happens When You Stop Fighting Your Diagnosis? Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health Recovery & Acceptance with Reza Ghaemi": https://rezpodcast.com/
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Link in episode "What Happens When You Stop Fighting Your Diagnosis? Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health Recovery & Acceptance with Reza Ghaemi": https://lisalacy.com/
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Link in episode "What Happens When You Stop Fighting Your Diagnosis? Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health Recovery & Acceptance with Reza Ghaemi": https://rezpodcast.com/

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author of Bipolar Is My Superpower: How Acceptance Changed My Life and host of The Rez Podcast
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author of Bipolar Is My Superpower: How Acceptance Changed My Life and host of The Rez Podcast
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author of Bipolar Is My Superpower: How Acceptance Changed My Life and host of The Rez Podcast

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What Happens When You Stop Fighting Your Diagnosis? Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health Recovery & Acceptance with Reza Ghaemi

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What happens when accepting a diagnosis stops feeling like surrender and becomes the beginning of recovery? In this episode of Notes From the Edge , Lisa Lacy sits down with author and podcast host Reza Ghaemi for an honest, funny, and deeply human conversation about living with Bipolar I Disorder, surviving mania and hospitalization, resisting treatment, and eventually learning to work with his diagnosis instead of fighting against it. Reza, author of Bipolar Is My Superpower: How Acceptance Changed My Life and host of The Rez Podcast , shares why acceptance became a turning point in his recovery and why calling bipolar his “superpower” is not about romanticizing mania or psychosis. It is about the self-awareness, resilience, recovery skills, and responsibility he built afterward. Lisa and Reza also dig into stigma, medication, faith, family support, disclosure, relationships, and what changes when you stop hiding your story and start owning it. In this episode: • Bipolar I Disorder, mania, psychosis, and hospitalization • Moving from denial and stigma toward acceptance • Medication, treatment, sleep, and building recovery skills • Mental health disclosure in work, dating, and relationships • Replacing shame and fear with self-awareness and ownership Connect with Reza Ghaemi: The Rez Podcast: https://www.rezpodcast.com Connect with Lisa Lacy: https://www.lisalacy.com What did you perform in order to survive? Welcome to the Edge. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .