Jenifer Lewis has bipolar disorder. I had no idea. I’m surprised I didn’t run across it when I wrote Celebrities and Bipolar Disorder or Female Celebrities and Mental Illness.
In any event, I did run across it, when I ran across Broadway Star Battles Bipolar, a Health Talk with Dr. Manny video from FOXNews.com.
During the video, Lewis talks very frankly about her diagnosis, the length of time it took for her therapist to convince her to take medication, and why she was afraid to take medication in the first place (like many people with bipolar disorder, Lewis was afraid it would …read more