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

SKU: 9781250793775
Supplier: Macmillan
Author: Meg Kissinger
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 09/05/2023
Language: English
Publisher: Celadon Books
Product Name: While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
ISBN: 1250793777
SKU: 9781250793775
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      Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger’s family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. Whether they were spending summer days on the shores of Lake Michigan, barreling down the ski slopes, or navigating the trials of their Catholic school, the Kissingers always knew how to live large and play hard.

      But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfolding—a heavily medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their own lives. Through it all, the Kissingers faced the world with their signature dark humor and the unspoken family rule: never talk about it.

      While You Were Out begins as the personal story of one family’s struggles then opens outward, as Kissinger details how childhood tragedy catalyzed a journalism career focused on exposing our country’s flawed mental health care. Combining the intimacy of memoir with the rigor of investigative reporting, the book explores the consequences of shame, the havoc of botched public policy, and the hope offered by new treatment strategies.

      Powerful, candid and filled with surprising humor, this is the story of one family’s love and resilience in face of great loss.

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      Author: Meg Kissinger
      Format: Hardcover
      Pages: 320
      Publication Date: 09/05/2023
      Language: English
      Publisher: Celadon Books
      Product Name: While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
      ISBN: 9781250793775
      Author: Meg Kissinger
      Format: Hardcover
      Pages: 320
      Publication Date: 09/05/2023
      Language: English
      Publisher: Celadon Books
      Product Name: While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
      ISBN: 1250793777

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