“At 39, Andrea Paquette has gotten a handle on her bipolar disorder. But it’s been a difficult journey.

The founder and executive director of the Bipolar Disorder Society of British Columbia and Bipolar Babes, a charity aimed at boosting awareness and removing the stigma associated with the condition, was diagnosed at 25. “I had a mental health breakdown – I went into a state of mania,” she recalls of that time. “I thought I was going to be the next prime minister of Canada.”

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