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Bipolar faith : a black woman's journey with depression and faith / Monica A. Coleman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (xix, 350 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781506408606
  • 1506408605
Other title:
  • Black woman's journey in depression and faith
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bipolar faith.DDC classification:
  • 616.89/50092 23
LOC classification:
  • RC516 .C65 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue : Steal away to Jesus : died of grief -- Part I. Will the circle be unbroken? -- 1. Grandma -- 2. Middle place -- 3. The mask -- 4. Faith in god -- Part II. Every time i feel the spirit -- 5. Invisible -- 6. Anointing -- 7. Calling -- Part III. Wade in the water -- 8. Rape -- 9. Day by day -- 10. Looking for hope -- 11. Good day, bad day -- 12. Silence -- 13. Dinah Project -- 14. The dance -- 15. When I die -- Part IV. No more auction block -- 16. Life of the mind -- 17. Razor -- 18. Diagnosis -- 19. Revelations -- 20. Wilderness -- 21. Fated -- 22. Free.
Summary: Monica A. 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. The rope was the violent instrument, but it was mental anguish that killed him. 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. Those same forces accompanied her into the black religious traditions and Christian ministry. All the while, she wrestled with her own bipolar disorder. Bipolar Faith is both a spiritual autobiography and a memoir of mental illness. In this powerful book, Monica Coleman shares her life-long dance with trauma, depression, and the threat of death. Citing serendipitous encounters with black intellectuals like Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Angela Davis, and Renita Weems, Coleman offers a rare account of how the modulated highs of bipolar II can lead to professional success, while hiding a depression that even her doctors rarely believed. Only as she was able to face her illness was she able to live faithfully with bipolar.
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Prologue : Steal away to Jesus : died of grief -- Part I. Will the circle be unbroken? -- 1. Grandma -- 2. Middle place -- 3. The mask -- 4. Faith in god -- Part II. Every time i feel the spirit -- 5. Invisible -- 6. Anointing -- 7. Calling -- Part III. Wade in the water -- 8. Rape -- 9. Day by day -- 10. Looking for hope -- 11. Good day, bad day -- 12. Silence -- 13. Dinah Project -- 14. The dance -- 15. When I die -- Part IV. No more auction block -- 16. Life of the mind -- 17. Razor -- 18. Diagnosis -- 19. Revelations -- 20. Wilderness -- 21. Fated -- 22. Free.

Monica A. 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. The rope was the violent instrument, but it was mental anguish that killed him. 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. Those same forces accompanied her into the black religious traditions and Christian ministry. All the while, she wrestled with her own bipolar disorder. Bipolar Faith is both a spiritual autobiography and a memoir of mental illness. In this powerful book, Monica Coleman shares her life-long dance with trauma, depression, and the threat of death. Citing serendipitous encounters with black intellectuals like Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Angela Davis, and Renita Weems, Coleman offers a rare account of how the modulated highs of bipolar II can lead to professional success, while hiding a depression that even her doctors rarely believed. Only as she was able to face her illness was she able to live faithfully with bipolar.

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