Black and bipolar: One man's journey
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Hakeem Rahim takes us on a personal journey in which he discovers as a student at Harvard University that his life was spinning out of his control.
Rahim, an African-American man, was the first in his family to be accepted to college. It was supposed to be a great moment in his life, but his University years were mired by his dramatic mood swings.
And then he saw Jesus on a Cambridge street corner and heard cars talk on the same night. He was hospitalized for two weeks and began taking psychiatric medication, 17 years later Hakeem is still taking medication, but has devoted his life to speak about how you can live a normal life with bipolar disorder.
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