Until recently I was only using Youtube for the music side of it. Then, I discovered Tyler Perry’s plays and started watching then moving on to short tv series etc… I would mention that I also used it for a year when I stopped relaxing my afro hair at an attempt to be “natural” – I know this has nothing to do with addiction or recovery in such but in a way I was let’s say self treatment myself from the power of the chemical hair relaxers. It worked so well that today I am hair free. Plain bald!
We are now Monday the 18th of March 2013 and it is 4.13pm, I am watching the american actress Jenifer Lewis on Oprah – again on Youtube.

I remember seeing her on television for the very first time in the Fresh Prince with Will Smith. In the episode I watched, she asked her one leg husband to stand up and dance with her – the whole scene was simply hilarious. She has that thing about her that catches and holds the attention. She can be loud, very loud – like me – she also has that grandiosity ( not snob for one bit but ever so little eccentric ) about her that I fell in love with right there. Since, each time I knew she was in a movie I was always making sure I watched it. She is simply brilliant, her acting is fabulous. She appears like a neurotic every now and then (nothing wrong with that really – we women we understand ;). Like many good actresses, she is so natural it’s as if she doesn’t have a script to read and memorise. There is no hiccups in her playing the roles she’s attributed at all. She is beautiful and has a great sense of style and humour.

Jenifer Lewis is her name and she is bipolar.

I must admit my eyebrows went up on my forehead when she pronounced the word. I so was not expecting this. I don’t know what I was hoping to hear actually when Oprah was taking that serious look and asking questions.

Bipolar disorder is very tricky to understand – for me definitely. I imagined it to be like autism or a very noticeable change of mood. I sure know it can be frightening” for a person witnessing it, it can be “strange” to see someone flipping pole in an “abnormal” way, it can be interesting to watch or it can be sad.

I can’t say much about it unfortunately. I am talking about it mainly because I found out the actress I so like suffers from it ( I still like her don’t get me wrong… )

It is good to know that medicines and therapies can provide a certain peace and relatively normal life to those suffering from yet another complicated mental disorder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU8_AHCHRXk