![]() ![]() In this powerful book, Monica Coleman shares her life-long dance with trauma, depression, and the threat of death. All the while, she wrestled with her own bipolar disorder.īipolar Faith is both a spiritual autobiography and a memoir of mental illness. Those same forces accompanied her into the black religious traditions and Christian ministry. Now, in gripping fashion, Coleman examines the ways that the legacies of slavery, war, sharecropping, poverty, and alcoholism mask a family history of mental illness. ![]() The rope was the violent instrument, but it was mental anguish that killed him. Coleman’s great-grandfather asked his two young sons to lift him up and pull out the chair when he hanged himself, and that noose stayed in the family shed for years. Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith by Monica A. ![]()
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