Happy Birthday to Me!
Today I’m 56 years old! That means I’m well past the halfway mark of my life. Yikes! I hope to live at least three more decades, so I better start taking better care [...]
Balancing Act Book Cover Reveal
Thank you, Michelle Hammer of HammerTimeDesign.com and Schizophrenic.NYC, for an absolutely awesome book cover design! Soon my memoir, Balancing Act: Writing Through a Bipolar Life, will be on the market! Thanks to everyone [...]
Bipolar Kicks My Ass
When I met with my psychiatrist yesterday, we discussed my diagnosis. I learned that since I’ve been hospitalized for bipolar symptoms, my diagnosis is type 1, not type 2. Since I've been ramping [...]
Balancing Act Book Launch Street Team
ARC, book launch, street team, Advanced Reader Copy, book review
Yes, I’ve Been Violent
Who, me, violent? Why, yes, on a few occasions. My Mental Illness and Violence Hi, I’m Kitt. I’m bipolar, and I’ve been violent. Mildly so, for the most part. Flipped over a table [...]
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I Spoke in Public! GalleryI Spoke in Public!
Acceptance, Bipolar Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Parenting, Depression, Hypomania, Mania, Memoir, Mental Health, Mental Health Advocacy, Mental Health Blogging, Mental Illness, Mood Cycling, Motherhood, Psychosis, Psychotic Thought Process, Public Speaking, Stigma
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. [...]
Writing My Book and Speaking Out Loud
This morning
Love, Marriage & Mental Illness
There's hope. You can find and nurture love when living with mental illness. Been married 22 years today. Started dating 25 years ago. Some of us living with mental illness can and do [...]
My Eulogy to Grandma
Here I am back in February 1993 with the quilt I made. This afternoon I came across the memorial announcement for my grandmother's death (which brought tears to my eyes) and the eulogy [...]
Small Steps
Never too early to learn good oral hygiene (I was probably teething) Progress sometimes comes in small steps. This weekend I walked the dog with my husband, which meant I stepped away from [...]