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  • My Bipolar Backpack

  • To the Bottom of Mental Illness and Back -- A Memoir
  • By: Susan Ralphe
  • Narrated by: Janice McNally
  • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins

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By: Susan Ralphe
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Summary

In this powerful memoir, Susan Ralphe employs sharp storytelling skills honed over a long newspaper reporting career to tell her own story of long-term, heart-wrenching bipolar madness. She recounts soaring accomplishments alternating with black periods of tenseness, brain freeze, and despair.

©2014 Susan Ralphe (P)2023 Susan Ralphe

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