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

by Meg Kissinger

when the time comes to let it go, to let it go

willingness to lay ourselves bare to help others.

Our father’s sudden mood changes and our mother’s melancholia made us tense,

They both longed for someone who knew how it felt to have your life sailing along in one direction and then, suddenly, one day, without any warning, to have it be turned around so completely that you didn’t know where you were heading anymore.

her father struggled with depression.