Christi is 31 years old and was diagnosed with Bipolar II six years ago. Her journey began in high school where she was a very depressed perfectionist and had trouble keeping friends. She turned to eating disorders (both anorexia and bulimia) and was treated sporadically by various campus doctors, until 2004. Her and her depressed, eating disordered butt landed into the office of who is her current psychotherapist. Together they worked through the eating disorders and depression, until 2006 when she checked into the hospital and was diagnosed with Bipolar II. After a 2 week stay, she was released into a full-time outpatient therapy program, which she completed 6 months later, in March 2007. It was in the outpatient therapy program that she learned a great deal, not just about herself and her own illness, but about relating to others and healthy relationships.
In 2004, she met her fiance and he quickly became swooped up in her Bipolar struggle. Both her family and her fiancee’s family, as well as her friends, have been, and continue to be, supportive as she soars up and down on the bipolar coaster yet doing her best to attain stability. She continues to see her psychotherapist regularly, works full time as a paralegal, and tries to keep her life as regular as possible……. IF thats possible! 