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Title: Wilma Cotten’s Memoir Returns in New Edition as She Shares Her Story at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 3rd Dec 2025 - Cotten’s book does not read like a polished case study or a neatly packaged narrative. Instead, it moves with the rhythm of lived experience—messy, hopeful, exhausted, loving, and brutally honest. She recounts the life of her daughter, Alisa, whose bipolar disorder emerged early and forcefully, reshaping the entire family. In Cotten’s hands, Alisa becomes more than a diagnosis: she is a bright, restless child who raced through the world with a mix of fearlessness and fragility that no one yet understood. The early chapters linger on those memories, allowing readers to feel the slow, creeping realization that something deeper is unfolding.When adolescence brings the formal diagnosis, Cotten’s writing sharpens. Her account of navigating psychiatrists, medications, and inconsistent support systems lays bare the emotional labor of caring for someone whose needs constantly change. Yet the memoir isn’t built on despair. It is built on effort—years of it—sometimes rewarded, often not, always exhausting.The republished edition arrives at a moment when readers are more attuned to the realities Cotten describes. Her story moves from mental illness to self-medication, addiction, and repeated attempts at treatment, all written with the clarity of someone who refuses to sanitize the truth. Cotten’s perspective as a mother—one who overextended herself financially, emotionally, and spiritually—gives the book its gravity. Her guilt, her fierce love, and her persistent hope run like a current beneath every chapter.The later sections, which detail the events surrounding Alisa’s murder and the ensuing legal trials, are written with restraint. Cotten avoids sensationalism; instead, she focuses on endurance, on the unimaginable task of liv...

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