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Jacquelyn "Jacqui" Chaplin (born 8 November 1966) is an Australian mind health and resilience advocate, author and facilitator ; radio program producer and presenter ; facilitator and master coach.

Early Life & Education
Chaplin was born in Melbourne in late 1966. In March 1967 she was adopted into a family with six children (one deceased). Two subsequent adoptions followed in 1971 and 1975. She is the seventh of nine children.

She grew up and was educated in Melbourne's south eastern suburb of Gardenvale. Attending primary school at St James' Catholic Primary School, Gardenvale Chaplin completed her secondary education at Star of the Sea Ladies College, Gardenvale.

A Diploma of Teaching (Primary) was completed in 1988 and Chaplin completed a Bachelor of Education(Primary) in 1992. She completed her formal academic qualifications in 1998 with a Master of Business Administration from Monash Mt Eliza Business School.

Career
Following six and half years in the education sector Chaplin, in search of greener pastures, briefly moved into the fast food industry before spending time in local government in Melbourne's inner city at the City of Yarra. Stints in executive recruitment and community health lead to a long term career in executive and corporate coaching.

In 2013, Chaplin added mind (mental) health advocacy and resilience building to her human potential work.

Personal Life
Chaplin first married in 1991 and the end of that marriage in 1993 was the trigger for her first episode of diagnosed clinical depression. She partnered again in 1998. The first meeting with her biological father triggered a second depressive episode in 1993, which also followed an increasing, undiagnosed hypo-(low levels)mania that had been building over several years.

Chaplin married her current husband Christopher Chittenden in 2005. After a difficult relationship with her father at the end of his life, his death in early 2013 triggered an unexpected hypo-manic event that was more easily identifiable. This hypo-mania was followed by another significant bout of clinical depression.

It was during this third significant depressive event over 20 years that a diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder Type II was made by a psychiatrist.

== Disclosure == Chaplin's Bipolar diagnosis was experienced as a relief to the extent that it explained many things about her life. Chaplin's psychiatrist recommended "An Unquiet Mind " by Kay Jamison Redfield. The book was a revelation and a salve. "The benefits gained from reading this book were influential in the creation of Disclosure", said Chaplin at the Launch of her book in Melbourne in November 2015. Disclosure has been written so other people with a lived experience of mental illness may be better understood and have greater self compassion for themselves. It also provides a range of research based resilience strategies for people with mood disorders and mental illness as well as those with out.