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. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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'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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]