Kasa Cotugno's Reviews > While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
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bookshelves: arc, genre-biography-memoir, subj-medical-condition, loc-usa-chicago
Sep 15, 2023
bookshelves: arc, genre-biography-memoir, subj-medical-condition, loc-usa-chicago
Meg Kissinger, an award winning journalist, generously shares her personal history of growing up in a well-to-do family with seven siblings that harbored secrets. Until circumstances brought them a certain notoriety. Her focus has been on the silence and shame that surrounds mental illness, hoping that her own experience will encourage readers to view sufferers of bipolar disorder and Schizophrenia with as much compassion and understanding as, say, cancer. This memoir honestly approaches life with the afflictions in the house, and how it was not acknowledged. In fact, when a beloved sister ends her own life, their father insists the family reply that it was the result of an accident.
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September 13, 2023
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