My Bipolar Backpack: To The Bottom Of Mental Illness And Back -- A Memoir

Author: Susan RalphePublisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing PlatformPaperback:ISBN 10: 1505387418ISBN 13: 978-1505387414In this powerful memoir, My Bipolar Backpack, 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 and recovery from it. About the Author SUSAN RALPHE’s long career as newspaper reporter ended abruptly when she descended, non-functioning, to the bottom of bipolar disorder. Years later, the product of two agonizing hospitalizations and endless psychotherapy and medication changes, she reinvented herself as an Arizona, then a Nevada, politician. She also faced head-on, intent on fending off returning bipolar symptoms, her husband Roger’s alcoholism, as well as his death after 38 years of marriage. A native of Norway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Susan resides in the Portland, OR, area and has two sons and nine grandchildren.