Hello Everyone--Loyal Flipswitch Listeners and Newcomers Alike!

The podcast and blog are baaaaack!  I am your new host; my name is Jessica Gimeno (click here to read my The Balanced Mind Foundation bio).  I want to hear how you feel on a myriad of topics ranging from how mood disorders (depression, bipolar, anxiety, etc) are portrayed in pop culture to how these illnesses affect your relationships and school work.  

With a fresh new approach, Flipswitch will take advantage of social media using: 

1. this Website 
2. Twitter 
3. Facebook 

You can answer poll questions on this page by clicking on “add new comment” and answering with a simple “Yes” or a “No.”  But if you’re really passionate about a topic and might like to hear yourself quoted in an upcoming podcast, you can leave a longer comment (with your name if you like).  If there’s a subject that really gets to you and you want to be in a podcast, email me at jgimeno@thebalancedmind.org.  For instance, if I were going to do a podcast on the stigma associated with bipolar and you have an experience that shows this, you can anonymously and briefly describe it in the relevant podcast.

Current Poll Question: Is it a good thing when wild celebrities like Charlie Sheen or Britney Spears are labeled bipolar?

-Yes, because it prompts people to look up “bipolar” on the Internet.

-No, because it stereotypes people with bipolar as promiscuous drug addicts.

-Not Sure.

Poll questions are also tweeted and posted on Facebook.  Poll closes Tuesday night, April 19, 2011.

--Jessica