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AJ Mendez's book discussed her journey with bipolar disorder, including how she learned to manage it and even use it to her advantage in her wrestling career.
It was a very conscious decision to use a word that might be Divisive that it might make people It I might rub people the wrong way and I've always kind of enjoyed that
— Episode: Wrestling with Mental Health, with AJ Me...
Episode: Wrestling with Mental Health, with AJ Mendez
AJ Mendez's book discussed her journey with bipolar disorder, including how she learned to manage it and even use it to her advantage in her wrestling career.
It was a very conscious decision to use a word that might be Divisive that it might make people It I might rub people the wrong way and I've always kind of enjoyed that
And the point in doing that is when you have these words that make people go You've give the word letters power over you And so for me every I've been labeled so many things.
I've been called, you know, bitchy I've been called loud. I've been called impulsive I've been called poor ugly freak rebel crazy.
When you own it and when you say oh being crazy has given me power and it's given me talent that I wouldn't had if I wasn't and being short and Being looking different than the other girls made me successful.
It was the reason for my success I own it now and I I control it. I have the power