Psychotic Thought Process Archives

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'Malley2022-09-09T16:29:28-07:00May 26th, 2019|Categories: 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|Tags: #amwriting, acceptance, amspeaking, Bipolar, bipolar disorder, bipolar thought process, bipolar type II, mental health advocacy, mental health month, Public speaking, purpose|26 Comments

Folie à Deux
Folie à Deux

Acceptance, Bipolar Disorder, Compassion, Family, Mental Illness, Poetry, Psychotic Thought Process

Folie à Deux

I Am My Mother Caveat: Please understand that delusional thought processes are SYMPTOMS of mental illness. I feel compassion, even as I feel pain and anger as someone negatively affected by parental delusional [...]

Kitt O'Malley2016-08-10T12:15:32-07:00August 10th, 2016|Categories: Acceptance, Bipolar Disorder, Compassion, Family, Mental Illness, Poetry, Psychotic Thought Process|Tags: delusion, delusional thought process, enmeshed family dynamics, enmeshment, folie a deux, poor boundaries|43 Comments

Father's Day Bits and Pieces

We plan to do some mountain biking today. When my husband and son do steep downhill runs (downhill mountain biking), I just have enough time to drop them off at the top of [...]

Kitt O'Malley2016-06-19T12:23:43-07:00June 19th, 2016|Categories: Bipolar Disorder, Mania, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychosis, Psychotic Thought Process|Tags: Father's Day, mass shootings, mountain biking, Orlando shooting, postpartum psychosis, violence|11 Comments

Meaning and Mental Illness

I wrote this post for Lisa Bortolotti's project Imperfect Cognitions: Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases. The blog was founded by Lisa Bortolotti in May 2013, after receiving [...]

Kitt O'Malley2015-12-28T13:56:19-08:00December 28th, 2015|Categories: Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Hypomania, Mania, Medication, Mental Health, Mental Health Ministry, Mental Illness, Mood Cycling, Mysticism, Psychosis, Psychotic Thought Process, Vocation|19 Comments

Words Fly

I remember when I couldn't hold the letters of a word together long enough to make sense of them. They flew off in all directions or got all jumbled up. I simply could [...]

Kitt O'Malley2015-08-08T13:02:38-07:00August 8th, 2015|Categories: Bipolar Disorder, Mania, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychosis, Psychotic Thought Process, Recovery|Tags: Brain disorder, concentration, reading difficulty|27 Comments

This Is My Brave Now – A Guest Post by Kitt O’Malley

Thank you, Jennifer Marshall for featuring my guest post on This is My Brave: This Is My Brave Now - A Guest Post by Kitt O'Malley. This is My Brave as I write these words. [...]

Kitt O'Malley2015-02-17T14:05:25-08:00February 17th, 2015|Categories: Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Hypomania, Mania, Medication, Mental Health, Mental Health Advocacy, Mood Cycling, Psychosis, Psychotic Thought Process, Recovery, Stigma|Tags: This is My Brave, thisismybrave.org|40 Comments

Mystic Psychosis

Binary numbers*, Lorenz attractor plot**, "Universal Man" by 13th century mystic Hildegard of Bingen*** Binary Numbers [A] binary number is a number expressed in the binary numeral system, or base-2 numeral system, [...]

Kitt O'Malley2014-11-21T12:17:45-08:00November 21st, 2014|Categories: Bipolar Disorder, Mania, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Mysticism, Psychosis, Psychotic Thought Process, Theology, What About God?|Tags: Binary numbers, Chaos Theory|18 Comments

NAMI Week Four

Kitt's Story Today was week four of NAMI Peer-to-Peer classes. In week four, we shared our personal stories. I am taking the opportunity to copy and paste my story here: My [...]

Kitt O'Malley2022-09-09T16:35:59-07:00August 13th, 2014|Categories: Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Parenting, Depression, Disability, Mania, Medication, Psychotic Thought Process, Recovery|36 Comments

Review of Eye-locks and Other Fearsome Things: Learning to Love as a Bipolar Aspie

Buy and read this book! I did. I greatly enjoyed reading and highly recommend Ellen Stockdale Wolfe's autobiographical story of love alongside psychological and neurological growth: Eye-locks and Other Fearsome Things: Learning to Love [...]

Kitt O'Malley2014-08-01T17:54:35-07:00August 1st, 2014|Categories: Bipolar Disorder, Psychotic Thought Process|Tags: asd, Asperger's, autism spectrum disorder|10 Comments

Suicide Infanticide

Long, long ago When my son was very, very young I thought of killing myself But what about my son? I can’t leave him behind Well then, I’ll take him with me Oh, [...]

Kitt O'Malley2014-06-21T17:09:16-07:00June 21st, 2014|Categories: Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Parenting, Parenting, Poetry, Psychotic Thought Process|Tags: Homicidal ideation, infanticide, postpartum bipolar disorder, postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, Suicidal ideation|30 Comments