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Descripton : bassey ikpi was born in nigeria in 1976 four years later she and her mother joined her father in stillwater oklahoma a move that would be anxiety ridden for any child but especially for bassey her early years in america would come to be defined by tension an assimilation further complicated by bipolar ii and anxiety that would go undiagnosed for decades by the time she was in her early twenties bassey was a spoken word artist and traveling with hbo s russell simmons def poetry jam channeling her experiences into art but something wasn t right beneath the faade of the confident performer bassey s mental health was in a precipitous decline culminating in a breakdown that resulted in hospitalization and a diagnosis of bipolar ii determined to learn from her experiences and share them with others bassey became a mental health advocate and has spent the fourteen years since her diagnosis examining the ways mental health is inextricably intertwined with every facet of ourselves and our lives viscerally raw and honest the result is an exploration of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of who we are and the ways as honest as we try to be each of these stories can also be a lie