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

by Meg Kissinger

This is what telling your story can do, she told them. It can bring the dead back to life—not in the same way but as a kind of transformation. It doesn’t take away the injury, but it can give you a feeling of power when you are in control of the narrative. The balance is shifted back to you. There’s new life, resurrected.