With over 30 years of scholarship and experience in the mental health field, Dr. Stephanie Heck is a licensed psychologist in private practice in NW Philadelphia. Is this shimmer real, or is it a manifestation of his chemically altered mind? But he faces another barrier: the shimmer that follows him and whispers vile things. Once Bowie’s actions are perceived as criminal, he no longer has the right to choose his own treatment.Īlong the way, Bowie explores a relationship with another Black man who encourages him to question a system that refuses to listen to him when he claims his medical regimen is causing adverse effects and who encourages him to find his own voice, free from the stigma of mental illness. But when he encounters the police, his fate moves beyond the control of treatment facilities and into the hands of the prison industrial complex, which eats the Black and the mentally ill, overcrowding American prison cells with bodies they are ill equipped to handle. Is it bipolar disorder? Or schizophrenia? Or maybe it’s schizo-affective disorder. But the experts can’t give him a diagnosis. Bowie Long has been in treatment for his mental health disorder since he was eighteen years old.
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