Medication & Bipolar Disorder | Dr. Nigila Ravichandran | #talkBD EP. 19 💊

Consultant psychiatrist Dr. Nigila Ravichandran (Institute of Mental Health, Singapore), and award-winning mental health educator and performer Victoria Maxwell discuss medications used for bipolar disorder, including side effects, information on specific medications, and how medications manage bipolar disorder symptoms like mania, depression, and psychosis. Hosted by Dr. Emma Morton. #talkBD Bipolar Disorder Podcast talkBD gathers researchers, people with lived experience, healthcare providers, and top bipolar disorder experts from around the world to discuss and answer the most important questions about living with bipolar disorder. Our episodes are available on all podcast platforms: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5svD0Dm... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/16... Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0... Learn more about talkBD: https://talkBD.live Dr. Nigila Ravichandran is a Consultant Psychiatrist from Singapore with more than 20 years of experience in mental health in clinical, academic, and research fields. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and actively involved in teaching and mentoring junior medical and allied health staff. She has also been volunteering in community work, and regularly gets invited to give talks and training at community events, speak on television, radio, and in webinars both in Singapore and internationally. She has been a Keynote Speaker and presenter in several international conferences. Since being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, psychosis, and anxiety, Victoria Maxwell has become one of North America’s top speakers and educators on the lived experience of mental illness and recovery, dismantling stigma and returning to work after a psychiatric disorder. As a performer, her funny, powerful messages about mental wellness create lasting change in individuals and organizations. By sharing her story of mental illness and recovery she makes the uncomfortable comfortable, the confusing understandable. The Mental Health Commission of Canada named her keynote That’s Just Crazy Talk as one of the top anti-stigma interventions in the country.