The CBS Sunday Morning anchor said by the time she was diagnosed she was 'in pretty deep trouble.”
“When I was 49 I was not bipolar. When I was 50 I was,” thePauley said that her doctor realized she had bipolar disorder after she was given steroids to treat a case of hives.“It unmasked what doctors described as a genetic vulnerability to a mood disorder, and by that time I was in pretty deep trouble,” she told hosts Gayle King, Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil for their “Stop the Stigma” mental health week.
’ ”That was in 2001, and Pauley decided to step back from the public eye and spend three weeks in a psychiatric ward. But she didn’t listen to her doctor, who suggested cover stories so she didn’t have to tell people she is bipolar.“The only time in my life, and we’re closing in on 20 years, that I experienced stigma was that day, day one, when I realized that my doctor was giving me a cover story to tell employers that I was being treated for a thyroid disorder.
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