Mental Health Advocacy – Kitt O'Malley

I Spoke in Public!

Thank you, Lianne Sauvage, for inviting me to share my mental health journey at Belmont High School's Mental Health Assembly! For my speech, I adapted content from My Bipolar Thoughts, my memoir work-in-progress. [...]

Kitt O'Malley2019-08-13T16:31:42+00:00May 26th, 2019|26 Comments

Published Author at Last!
Published Author at Last!

Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Parenting, Blogging, Mental Health, Mental Health Advocacy, Mental Health Blogging

Published Author at Last!

Published Blogging for Bipolar Mental Health today! Visit Amazon.com/author/kittomalley. So excited!

Kitt O'Malley2018-04-08T21:03:16+00:00April 8th, 2018|42 Comments

Video Conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryrmyzeZfuk&t=5s Saturday my niece, Teresa Nichols, interviewed me about my online vision. She has an MBA and her own Cincinnatti based marketing business. http://reveal.marketing/ LinkedIn.com/in/teresalnichols Facebook.com/webmarketingtrainer Twitter.com/bizfunctional Sorry to my deaf and hard [...]

Kitt O'Malley2018-02-25T15:19:21+00:00February 25th, 2018|6 Comments

Health Care System Fails Serious Mental Illness (SMI) and Severe Emotional Disturbance (SED)
Health Care System Fails Serious Mental Illness (SMI) and Severe Emotional Disturbance (SED)

Mental Health Advocacy, Mental Illness, NAMI

Health Care System Fails Serious Mental Illness (SMI) and Severe Emotional Disturbance (SED)

The Way Forward: Federal Action for a System That Works for All People Living With SMI and SED and Their Families and Caregivers The Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee (ISMICC) has released [...]

Kitt O'Malley2018-01-18T10:03:47+00:00January 18th, 2018|10 Comments

Thank you, David Susman PhD
Thank you, David Susman PhD

Gratitude, Mental Health, Mental Health Advocacy, Psychotherapy

Thank you, David Susman PhD

Thank you, clinical psychologist and mental health advocate David Susman PhD, for steadfastly supporting fellow mental health advocates and sharing science-based information and resources at DavidSusman.com. Congratulations on three years as a mental [...]

Kitt O'Malley2017-12-09T12:03:38+00:00December 9th, 2017|6 Comments

Please Support Me #NAMIWalks #JoinTheMovement
Please Support Me #NAMIWalks #JoinTheMovement

Acceptance, Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health, Mental Health Advocacy, Mental Illness, NAMI, Volunteering

Please Support Me #NAMIWalks #JoinTheMovement

Please support me as I raise money for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). NAMI Orange County has been instrumental in my mental health recovery. Help Me Support NAMI NAMI’s Peer-to-Peer [...]

Kitt O'Malley2017-09-08T12:35:55+00:00September 8th, 2017|2 Comments

I do not whisper. I ROAR.
I do not whisper. I ROAR.

Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Parenting, Depression, Disability, Hypomania, Mental Health, Mental Health Advocacy, Motherhood, Parenting, Recovery, Stigma, Vocation, Writing

I do not whisper. I ROAR.

Motherhood transformed me. My identity changed. Now it changes again. I have constantly reinvented myself over my lifetime. As a pre-med biochemistry major at UCLA, I was miserable and suicidal. Then I studied part-time [...]

Kitt O'Malley2017-09-07T13:09:58+00:00September 7th, 2017|35 Comments

#AtoZChallenge: G is for #GirlsRock (an Interview with Mental Health Care Advocate Kitt O'Malley

Eli Pacheco, Coach Daddy, interviewed me for his #AtoZchallenge, G is for #GirlsRock post. Thank you, Eli! Eli rocks, too.

Kitt O'Malley2017-04-12T16:05:53+00:00April 12th, 2017|16 Comments

Am I Still a Mental Health Blogger?

What defines being a blogger, specifically a mental health blogger? Must I write regularly or frequently? Must I always write about mental health? What if that is not my focus ALL the time? [...]

Kitt O'Malley2017-02-07T12:36:22+00:00February 7th, 2017|73 Comments

Featured Blogger: Kitt O’Malley – Art by Rob Goldstein
Featured Blogger: Kitt O’Malley – Art by Rob Goldstein

Bipolar Disorder, Blogging, Caregiving, Family, Mental Health, Mental Health Advocacy, Mental Illness, Psychotherapy, Self care, Stigma, Writing

Featured Blogger: Kitt O’Malley – Art by Rob Goldstein

Thank you, Robert Goldstein, for featuring me on Art by Rob Goldstein as his November featured blogger. The original interview is posted at: robertmgoldstein.com/2016/11/06/featured-blogger-kitt-omalley/. Here I reprint it. This month’s featured blogger is writer and [...]

Kitt O'Malley2016-11-10T00:27:28+00:00November 10th, 2016|10 Comments