The Importance of Knowing When Fears Are Rational

The last thing I remember is a nurse with dreadlocks asking me questions and then administering medication that knocked me out. It was either during this hospitalization or during one of the three that followed that I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. That morning I was furious that no one rode with me from the emergency room to the hospital if you neighborhoods over, that they'd left me alone with strangers. As a black woman, those fears you were feeling are backed by history.