Kitt O’Malley

Month: November 2015

Dear Kitt

Nov 1, 2015

in Acceptance, Atonement, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Family, Hypomania, Medication, Mental Health, Writing

Kitt, you fuel your rage by seeing a psychoanalysist one to three times a week, exploring over and over how you had been abused as a child. You deepen your depression by studying psychodynamic theory in graduate school. Doing so defeats you and undermines your mental health. Yes, therapy will enable you to work through issues you have with…
I am Ashamed

Nov 1, 2015

in Bipolar Disorder, Disability, Family, Health, Overwhelmed

I’m ashamed. Ashamed of the dust. Ashamed of the clutter. Ashamed that I do not, that somehow I cannot, bring myself to keep my house clean. This afternoon, as I sat working at our dining room table, my husband just touched the dusty lamp above me, and I started coughing, choking, asthmatic that I am. My son suffers…