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My Eulogy to Grandma
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My Eulogy to Grandma

Family, Grief

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 [...]

Kitt O'Malley2019-08-20T23:37:01+00:00April 22nd, 2019|Categories: Family, Grief|Tags: carrying on, death, eulogy, love, memorial|4 Comments

Small Steps
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Small Steps

Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Family, Grief, Nature

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 [...]

Kitt O'Malley2019-08-24T00:28:43+00:00April 15th, 2019|Categories: Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Family, Grief, Nature|Tags: bipolar disorder, depression, exercise, Grief Loss and Bereavement, inertia, love|9 Comments

interviewed me about dating and marriage while living with bipolar disorder. Here's how the article starts: At age 30, Kitt O’Malley moved in with her parents after treatment for debilitating depression resulted in psychotic mania [...]

Kitt O'Malley2019-04-09T13:05:38+00:00April 9th, 2019|Categories: Bipolar Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Family, Hypomania, Mania, Marriage, Mental Health, Mental Health Blogging, Mental Illness, Psychosis|Tags: Bipolar, bipolar disorder, dating, love, Meaning, purpose, relationships|8 Comments

Best Bipolar Disorder Blogs of 2019

Thank you, Healthline, for selecting me as a best bipolar disorder blog of 2019! Article is shared here.

Kitt O'Malley2019-04-08T11:00:53+00:00April 8th, 2019|Categories: Bipolar Disorder, Blogging, Mental Health|Tags: best bipolar disorder blog, best bipolar disorder blog of 2019, Bipolar, bipolar blog, bipolar disorder, bipolar disorder blog, healthline award|22 Comments

Martin Short Quote on Death

Martin Short's wife Nancy died of cancer after almost 30 years of marriage. I love what he said about death in his AARP interview. I believe that when people die, they zoom into [...]

Kitt O'Malley2019-04-06T12:04:20+00:00April 6th, 2019|Categories: Cancer, Family, Grief, Marriage, Mental Health|Tags: bereavement, death, love, Martin Short, quote|10 Comments

I Will Not Cry Now

To avoid feeling overwhelmed and hold back the tears due to loss, stress and worry, I've started delving into my ancestry online. My therapist reframed what I was doing as focusing, rather than [...]

Kitt O'Malley2019-04-04T11:00:04+00:00April 4th, 2019|Categories: Bipolar Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Illness, Family, Grief, Hypomania, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Overwhelmed, Stroke, Triggers to Mood Cycling|Tags: ancestry, avoidance, bereavement, coping mechanism, depression, family tree, focus, hypomania, mood cycling, mourning|19 Comments

Exhausted While Bipolar

Exhausted by life stressors. Understandably so. I have this. Just takes a LOT of energy. Recently I've been totally overwhelmed and exhausted. A virus almost took my mother's life. Thank God she survived. [...]

Kitt O'Malley2019-03-28T15:09:58+00:00March 28th, 2019|Categories: Bipolar Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Caregiving, Chronic Illness, Compassion, Family, Mental Health, Stress, Stroke|Tags: Bipolar, exhaustion, illness, stressor|13 Comments

Lynn Nanos Guest Post: Revolving Door of the Mental Health System

Thank you, Lynn Nanos, LICSW, author of Breakdown: A Clinician's Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry, for this guest post. "When hospitals release seriously mentally ill patients too soon without outpatient [...]