Annelle Primm

Bipolar Faith

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“In Bipolar Faith, Dr. Coleman offers a brilliantly written narrative which provides a bird's-eye view of her early years marked by family strife, tragedy, and loss juxtaposed with the joys of childhood summers spent immersed in a segregated Black community in Washington, DC. She ushers us gently into her world in which, over time, through Ivy League baccalaureate study and pursuit of ministerial professionalism and spiritual scholarship, she comes to terms with a family history of mental health challenges and substance use disorder, her own traumatic experiences, and a diagnosis of mental illness which finally explains her episodic changes in mood, outlook, and activity level. The reader will admire Dr. Coleman's strong faith through it all, her existential questioning, and the fact that she has emerged whole from introspective exploration, loving herself as is.”