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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

Who, Me, Dating?

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'Malley2019-04-09T13:05:38-07:00April 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

Funneling Exercise: Admired and Called
Funneling Exercise: Admired and Called

Mental Health, Self care, Writing

Funneling Exercise: Admired and Called

Characteristics I admire: Compassion, Creativity, Bravery, Love, Intelligence

Kitt O'Malley2019-03-03T12:15:57-08:00March 3rd, 2019|Categories: Mental Health, Self care, Writing|Tags: bravery, Compassion, creativity, Funneling exercise, intelligence, love, purpose|2 Comments

Stigma of Invisible Disability

Those of us living with invisible disabilities face stigma not only from others but sometimes from ourselves. Recently read Work Ethic, a post by bpnurse, in which she discusses her life [...]

Kitt O'Malley2018-06-06T14:04:14-07:00June 6th, 2018|Categories: Bipolar Disorder, Stigma, What About God?|Tags: Disability, invisible disabilities, purpose, reframing, SSDI, SSI, stigma|32 Comments

Where Am I Going Now?
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Where Am I Going Now?

Acceptance, Bipolar Disorder, Caregiving, Gratitude, Mental Health Advocacy, Stroke

Where Am I Going Now?

Originally written October 2015, a month before my mother had her stroke, before my life changed. Still settling into my new normal. How do I describe myself? How do I best describe my [...]

Kitt O'Malley2016-09-22T14:58:41-07:00September 22nd, 2016|Categories: Acceptance, Bipolar Disorder, Caregiving, Gratitude, Mental Health Advocacy, Stroke|Tags: art, direction, identity, purpose, Writing|7 Comments

Kitt's Invented Platitudes
Kitt's Invented Platitudes

Acceptance, Mindfulness, Writing

Kitt's Invented Platitudes

Rarasaur’s Platitudes “But then… people learn.” “Everything’s gonna be okay. (Except when it’s not.) ((Except that’s okay, too.))” I think it is human nature to ascribe or find meaning to events in our [...]

Kitt O'Malley2016-05-28T13:52:56-07:00May 28th, 2016|Categories: Acceptance, Mindfulness, Writing|Tags: alone, connected, dialectic, dialectical, love, Meaning, not alone, platitudes, purpose, Rarasaur|19 Comments

About Me and This Blog

Blogging can affect both personal and social change. I started blogging because the thoughts and words in my mind simply had to get out. I hope this blog offers support, educates, and fights [...]

Kitt O'Malley2016-01-30T21:24:19-08:00January 30th, 2016|Categories: Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Parenting, Blogging, Depression, Hypomania, Mental Health Ministry, Mental Illness, Mysticism, Psychosis, Vocation, Writing|Tags: purpose|40 Comments

Where Am I Going Now?

How do I describe myself? How do I best describe my blog? What has my blog become? What direction do I want to take it? What direction is my life taking? Is my writing [...]

Kitt O'Malley2015-10-18T11:00:14-07:00October 18th, 2015|Categories: Acceptance, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Gratitude, Mania, Mental Health Advocacy, Mental Illness|Tags: art, direction, identity, purpose, Writing|0 Comments

Even an Electron has Purpose

She closed her eyes. She paused. She took a deep breath, paused, meditated, waited to see where it would take her, where she would go, what she would feel. She felt a great [...]

Kitt O'Malley2015-10-08T16:28:11-07:00October 8th, 2015|Categories: Bipolar Disorder, Mindfulness, Mysticism, Theology, Vocation, Writing|Tags: meditation, physics, purpose|0 Comments

Chafing at Structure?

Tuesday April 29th I went to group therapy and attended my first Toastmasters meeting. Toastmasters was very structured, probably too structured for my tastes; though, the structure worked well in that they covered [...]

Kitt O'Malley2014-05-15T10:52:47-07:00May 15th, 2014|Categories: Bipolar Parenting, Marriage, Parenting, Vocation|Tags: balance, creativity, purpose, structure|0 Comments