Woman & Home South Africa

Finding my WAY TO THE light again

Artist, film producer, bipolar coach and now author, Sam Smirin, 49, lives in Parktown North with her daughter Scarlett, 14.

“If you aren’t careful, bipolar disorder can sap you dry. It’s like a live wire burning through your life, affecting everything from your career and relationships to the way you see yourself. Though over four million people in SA struggle with the illness, it’s still deeply misunderstood. Through writing my memoir, Life Interrupted, I finally came face to face with my diagnosis and was liberated from 30 years of suffering.

It all started in 1988 when I went

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