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09/04/09
Put down the cameras and put her under a 5150 before it's too late.
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here i'll even help. here's an interview her mom did with tavis smiley in '05 - [www.pbs.org] a commenter below has already posted the link to the blackweb2.0 story. That's not including the fact that bebe moore campbell addresses it in her own work: "Campbell's next work seemed an abrupt shift from her previous efforts. The illustrated children's story Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry provided soothing words for young readers with a family member suffering from bipolar disorder. The story is told through the voice of a young girl, who has a loving grandparent to explain difficult ideas to her and suggest coping strategies. Campbell confessed in some media interviews that bipolar disorder had been an issue in her own family, an admission repeated, albeit in anonymous form, in similar publicity interviews for her next book, 72 Hour Hold, the story of a mother struggling to help her 18-year-old daughter, a victim of bipolar disorder. The novel won praise from Ariel Swartley in Los Angeles Magazine, who commended the author for her "ability to blend ingredients that literature has long considered to be hopelessly at odds: practical information and poetry, stump speech and darn good yarn."
Campbell's second children's book, Stompin' at the Savoy, appeared in 2006. Sadly, that work would be the last to appear in her lifetime; diagnosed with brain cancer in early 2006, she died at the age of 56 on November 27, 2006, in Los Angeles. In one of the last interviews she gave, she discussed her family's experiences with mental illness, and the solace she found in support groups. "We don't want to talk about it," she explained to Kenneth Meeks of Black Enterprise, of her involvement in the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, whose Inglewood, California, chapter she co-founded. "I didn't want to talk about it, either. I went into denial. I was ashamed. I was very stigmatized by this illness that had no business in my family."
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Apparently, her mother Bebe Moore Campbell, wrote a fictionalized book dealing with this struggle- 72 Hour Hold.
[www.amazon.com]
After her mothers death (brain cancer), understandably Maia's mental health only worsened.
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I'm guessing she's bipolar aggravated by drug use.
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