Heartline Podcast – Episode 55 – Lee Ann Jefferies
Lee Ann Jefferies has been living with a psychotic form of Bipolar Disorder since being diagnosed in her early twenty's. Living in Birmingham, Ala., she was treated by a very prominent Psychiatrist. He only took on the most challenging, and complex patients.
Lee Ann was hospitalized, had electric shock therapy, powerful cocktails of anti-psychotic drugs, anti-depressants, and lithium, in an attempt to control her symptoms. With little on no progress made, her prognosis was grim.
The doctor told her husband things did not look good, and that she may need to be institutionalized.
After a move to N.C. her family was trying to start over, but Lee Ann was nowhere close to being well. She had always dreamed of being a Ford Model! But with such a severe mental illness... was it even a remote possibility? It was. She sighed a contract with Ford and away she went.... STILL BIPOLAR!! Lee Ann remained with Ford for 16years.
Her Bipolar disorder continues to be very hard illness to live with but she continues to press on and share her amazing journey of faith.
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