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Pennsauken Resident Gets Personal In Book About Mental Health Journey

By Frank Sinatra, AAP Editor

M.J. Patterson has written about her journey dealing with bipolar disorder in her first book, “Coloring the World with Broken Crayons.”

“It’s about my lifelong struggle as an African American woman with mental illness,” explained Patterson. “Even though I didn’t know it at the time, I was showing signs of mental illness at the age of eight.”

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