Eamon O'Gana
speaker
116 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
Eamon O'Gana’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We'd recently gotten engaged and now I was talking about spies all the time.
At first she told herself it would pass.
Then she realised it might not, which was frightening.
And then I disappeared.
After a few days, Claire called the British Embassy and the police.
They eventually found me, detained me and took me to a mental hospital.
Like what?
Not vaccine, injection.
Later, she told me she'd started to wonder if I was a spy, that my obsession with espionage made more sense if I was somehow part of it.
It turns out, delusions about espionage and religion are extremely common in people who have bipolar disorder.
After a few weeks in hospital, I was released.
Claire found a bespectacled, goateed professor of psychiatry who she hoped could help me.
He introduced me to something called psychoeducation.
I'd seen shrinks before, but had some bad experiences.
Psychoeducation was different.
It taught me to learn the mechanics of my disorder the way a psychiatrist would.
What triggers looked like, how symptoms stacked up, what the early warning lights were.
I was less a passive patient and more a junior practitioner in my own case.
I started to map my own warning signs.
a broken sleep cycle, the rush of success.
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