Returning From The Brink Of insanity
with Neuroscientist Barbara K. Lipska
Discover your way home with stories of courage and grit
Subscribe nowThe saying ‘I’m losing my mind’ couldn’t be truer for my next guest. This week I am speaking with Barbara K. Lipska, a Neuroscientist who was diagnosed in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain’s frontal lobe. As the cancer progressed and was treated, she experienced behavioural and cognitive symptoms connected to a range of mental disorders, including dementia and her professional specialty, schizophrenia. Gradually, after a course of immunotherapy, Barbara returned to normal functioning and amazingly recalled her experience – even writing a memoir entitled ‘The Neuroscientist who Lost her Mind: My Tale of Madness And Recovery’. A tale like no other— I am honoured to speak with Barbara about returning home to her true self after her brush with insanity.
Barbara’s background [2:15]
Barbara’s illness [3:50]
The impact of her illness [10:05]
The journey of healing [15:48]
How to approach mental illness and its effects [20:45]
Key lessons learnt [23:47]
The future and moving on [28:15]
Closing thoughts [34:40]
“100% of people die with this illness when this spreads to the brain— so it’s tragic as you can imagine.” [4:41]
“I’m alive and that’s the most important thing.” [18:34]
“Live in the moment because you don’t know what will happen to you.” [26:12]
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