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“I took medication after medication, but the rain cloud stuck with me. It wasn’t until my bipolar diagnosis and a new cocktail of Lamictal, Trileptal, Buspar, and Perphenazine, that I began to feel like myself— whatever that meant. See, I had been depressed for so long that I wasn’t sure who I was. General descriptors still seemed accurate— Nigerian American, artist, writer, forever mentally ill.”