NSPIRE Stories - Tanya Brown

2025-05-20

Tanya Brown had it all: an impressive military career as an officer in the US Army, a husband, two healthy children, the quintessential American dream. But when mounting military pressures and stress triggered Bipolar 1, with psychotic features, her life was upended. Within a short time, she lost her career and after years of struggle and a series of manic episodes, she damaged relationships with her family and was devastated financially. Drowning in the ups and down of her disease, and fo...

Tanya Brown had it all: an impressive military career as an officer in the US Army, a husband, two healthy children, the quintessential American dream.

But when mounting military pressures and stress triggered Bipolar 1, with psychotic features, her life was upended.

Within a short time, she lost her career and after years of struggle and a series of manic episodes, she damaged relationships with her family and was devastated financially.

Drowning in the ups and down of her disease, and following multiple hospitalizations, Tanya reached a breaking point.

That’s when she called NSPIRE…and everything changed.

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