MaiaMy husband made me aware of a video depicting Maia Campbell acting really, really crazy. I had heard about her being bipolar but after viewing that video, I now believe she might actually be a schizophrenic. I cannot get down on her because she is very, very mentally ill.    Link

What I find heart breaking is the fact that looking at the video, she clearly has fallen into the hands of some scary characters who are beating and prostituting her. It is heart breaking to watch.
BebeHer mother is no longer alive. Her late mother is Bebe Moore Campbell who was a writer who appeared in Essence magazine for many years.

Her last book is titled, Seventy Two Hour Hold   and here is its description:

“Seventy Two Hour Hold is the story of Keri, a woman caught up in a love triangle between her ex-husband and her actor boyfriend. Her world is shattered when her beloved child develops a mental illness. Unable to get the help she needs from the mental health system, Keri joins forces with the volatile Bethany, whose daughter is also unstable. Fed up, the two take to the road in search of the healing for their children promised by a band of radical underground mental health workers. Their arduous journey tries their souls in every way imaginable but ultimately leads both women to a greater understanding of what it means to love unconditional.”

Her mother would be devastated to see her daughter in such a dire condition. My guess is that her father and step father and ex husband are not helping her because they are practicing “tough love”. Sorry, but there are times when intervention is necessary because tough love does not work with the mentally ill. They have a brain disorder. Her brain disorder is made worse by the fact that she refuses to take her meds and she is self medicating with hard drugs.

Before her death, Bebe said this about her daughter:

Watching my loved one become violent and an incoherent stranger certainly tested my faith. My very close family member has bipolar disorder, which is a mood disorder – a disease of the brain.
We were at a hotel together and my loved one flew into a rage. The next thing I knew, all of my suitcases were outside the hotel door. In my mind came the words “She’s sick, she’s sick.” It just kept echoing. I recognized that this was indeed a mental illness and I had absolutely no control over it, that I would have to let go or I would be destroyed.

I didn’t know what was wrong, but throwing me out of the hotel room really crystallized that this was indeed a mental problem. When I began to see the early manifestations of early bipolar disorder, I went into denial. I told myself, “This is something she will outgrow. This is a phase, etc.”

But once I recognized that this was a sickness, being in denial, I didn’t talk about it outside of the family and I forbid anyone else talking about it.  This is our secret.

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Mental illness is often not dealt with or discussed in the black community but insanity is no joke. It cannot be swept under a rug.

Below is the video of Maia acting the way drug addicted insane people are expected to behave. It’s indeed prayer time because her mother is not here to do so on her behalf:    [LANGUAGE  WARNING]