{"id":2006,"date":"2010-12-12T00:18:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T00:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:00:07","slug":"lunch-with-my-friend-gayathri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/lunch-with-my-friend-gayathri\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch with my friend Gayathri"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just had lunch with my friend Gayathri. She is one of the most amazing people I know. She moved here from India in an arranged marriage over 20 years ago and just wrote her story in a new memoir.\u00a0 She had a lot of depression and anxiety when she was growing up. She moved to America with her new husband and a lot of expectations.\u00a0 Her descriptions of what it was like to go to a grocery store for the first time are amazing: “I never knew there were so many types of cereal!”<\/p>\n

Gayathri and I became friend through\u00a0NAMI (National Alliance on Mental\u00a0Illness)\u00a0seven years ago. We have been friends ever since.\u00a0Isn’t it great when you meet someone who understands what it’s like to have a mental illness? We have our own language. That is how I feel after I speak to a large\u00a0crowd and I talk to people afterwards and I\u00a0get to meet people like myself.<\/p>\n

Gayathri was in the psychiatric\u00a0ward\u00a0two times\u00a0after\u00a0she had her first child. She writes about\u00a0this in her book. The depression and anxiety simply became too much. I bet if you look at her\u00a0 you would think- how could she possibly be depressed! Well, those of us who get depressed come in all shapes and sizes. There is no particular look.<\/p>\n

I am thankful for Gayathri because she is there for me when I need her. Like today when it’s dark and rainy\u00a0outside and I feel dark and rainy inside.\u00a0 It’s so important to have friends who understand!<\/p>\n

You can read more about Gayathri at www.MindBeautiful.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is Gayathri when she was a guest on my radio show! <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just had lunch with my friend Gayathri. She is one of the most amazing people I know. She moved here from India in an arranged marriage over 20 years ago and just wrote her story in a new memoir. She had a lot of depression and anxiety when she was growing up. She moved to America with her new husband and a lot of expectations. Her descriptions of what it was like to go to a grocery store for the first time are amazing: “I never knew there were so many types of cereal!”<\/p>\n

Gayathri and I became friend through NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) seven years ago. We have been friends ever since. Isn’t it great when you meet someone who understands what it’s like to have a mental illness? We have our own language. That is how I feel after I speak to a large crowd and I talk to people [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11773,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/11773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}