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What it's like to be a Black woman with bipolar disorder
29 minutes Posted Feb 7, 2024 at 12:00 am.
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"Three springs ago, I lost the better part of my mind," Naomi Jackson wrote in an essay for Harper's Magazine. On this episode, Jackson shares her experience with biopolar disorder. She talks about how she's had to decipher what fears stem from her illness and which are backed by the history of racism.

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