In this video, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, shares her experiences with living every day with the mania and severe depression that she had studied for years.

She talks openly of the challenges she faced with the treatment and disclosure of her mental illness.

Kay Redfield Jamison is an American clinical psychologist and writer whose work has centered on bipolar disorder which she has suffered from since her early adulthood.

She is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is an Honorary Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.