While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

by Meg Kissinger

I couldn’t figure out how life could just keep chugging along as normal when mine had been shattered. I started to resent the thrum of everyday life,

How the hell is a baby’s head supposed to get out of my body? I asked my mother.

Beats me, she said. God must be a man or he would have figured out an easier way.

Only love and understanding can conquer this disease.