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Natasha Tracy

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Self Help, Memoir

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Natasha Tracy is an award-winning writer, speaker and consultant from the Pacific Northwest. She has been writing about living with bipolar disorder for more than a decade and been a professional mental health writer for six years.

Natasha is known for speaking her mind, whether that's in front of a crowd of hundreds or through her written work. She is savagely introspective, some would say controversial and doesn't allow political correctness to alter how she thinks about mental illness.

Natasha's work is extensively showcased on HealthyPlace and has also been featured on the Huffington Post, the Daily Mail, Healthline, PsychCentral and elsewhere.

Natasha is currently working on a research project on the patient perspectives of electroconvul ...more

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	Lost Marbles: Insights into My Life with Depression & Bipolar 4.14 avg rating — 166 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Navigating Bipolar Country: Personal and Professional Perspectives on Living with Bipolar Disorder by Merryl Hammond (Goodreads Author), Julie Fast, Natasha Tracy (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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What If Your Emotional Pain Is Trying to Protect You?

A young woman sits indoors in soft daylight, eyes closed and face tense with emotion, one hand pressed to her temple as she cries, capturing the raw intensity of emotional pain.

I’m never going to call bipolar pain a “gift.” Most days, I just want it to stop. But emotional and even physical pain aren’t always random torture—they’re often trying to tell us something. This piece digs into what your pain might be saying, how to listen, and how that can make living with it just a little easier.

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I’ll Run Till the Sun Goes Down: A Memoir About Depression and Discovering Art

by David Sandum (Goodreads Author)

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Natasha’s Quotes

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: change

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein

tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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