Journal of Traumatic Stress Disorders & TreatmentISSN: 2324-8947

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Ren VanderLind Author

ren.vanderlind@txstate.edu +19063709282

Subjects of specialization
Mental Illness, Bipolar disorder

Affiliation
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Texas State University, USA

Biography

Ren VanderLind studies phenomena related to the experiences of college students with mental illness. She is currently working on her Doctorate in developmental education with a focus on literacy and is researching how stigma and resilience affect students with mental illness in terms of their identity development. Although her degree is within education, her research agenda focuses specifically on supporting students with mental illness in their academic pursuits and development of self-concept. She is an advocate for destigmatizing mental illness and opening social discussions of this important issue.

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Bipolar and a PhD Student? Two Years and Two Different Perspectives

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Ren VanderLind

This auto ethnography of being a female academic with bipolar disorder emerged from an interview about personal experiences during the first year of a doctoral program and a personal paper written about a social justice issue. This article first delves into the driving forces behind my struggles and successes during my first year as a doctoral student. Secondly, it addresses the new voice I found during my second year as a PhD student. Finally, I discuss how these voices interact, converging and diverging as a third voice emerges. This is auto ethnography of what having bipolar disorder can mean to a newly-diagnosed individual. It is an article of struggle, triumph, and many emotions in between.

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DOI: 10.4172/2324-8947.1000159

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