Balancing Act: Writing Through a Bipolar Life
Gritty, inspiring, brave memoir of living with bipolar disorder.
Balancing Act – Writing Through a Bipolar Life is a passionate tale of perseverance and courage.
If you like gritty autobiographies, learning to heal, and finding strength by putting pen to paper, then you’ll adore Kitt O’Malley’s powerful memoir.
In this deeply personal and inspiring story, Kitt O’Malley shares her journey of healing and rebuilding while coping with a challenging disorder.
And for anyone facing fear and negativity, or fighting to cope with parenting and relationships, this well-respected mental health advocate provides a beacon of hope in the quest for a fulfilling existence.
As a child, Kitt O’Malley already had her future mapped out.
Working hard to fulfill her parents’ dreams of attending Harvard only to receive rejection letters from all the top Ivy League schools, she spiraled under the pressure of feeling like a failure.
Thinking of herself as a burden to her family and unworthy of living, the desperate college freshman was on the brink of ending it all.
Battling through her depression while hiding behind a convincing façade, Kitt earned a master’s in psychology just to suffer a traumatic breakdown at age thirty.
With a new bipolar diagnosis, the courageous woman struggled to be the best mother to her precious son, overcome internal stigmas, and forge a spirited path toward understanding and self-love.
Buy Balancing Act – Writing Through a Bipolar Life to be inspired today!
Editorial Reviews
This book will bring comfort, validation, hope, and education especially to anyone with bipolar disorder.
—Lynn Nanos, LICSW, author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry
Balancing Act is imbued with compelling honesty. Written from a place of compassion informed by Kitt’s background as a psychotherapist, this account will help anyone affected by bipolar disorder.
—Dyane Harwood, author of Birth of a New Brain: Healing from Postpartum Bipolar Disorder
Kitt O’Malley offers us her raw personal journey into a life with bipolar disorder. Her writing style gives the reader an intimate sense of how bipolar mood swings can both energize and fragment a devoted wife, mother, daughter, writer, volunteer, and professional therapist. But, Balancing Act also reminds us of the importance of self-care in managing a mental illness.
—Michael G. Pipich, MS, LMFT, psychotherapist and author of Owning Bipolar: How Patients and Families Can Take Control of Bipolar Disorder
Kitt O’Malley provides a finite road map and a brutally honest glimpse inside the daily frustrations of living with mental illness… As a writer; I was inspired. As a survivor of Bipolar Disorder; I was enthralled. As a mental health advocate; I was humbled and grateful. Balancing Act is an absolutely vital resource, and Kitt O’Malley is the unconventional, necessary mental health ally, doting wife and mother, balancing life with mental illness more than just fine.
—Jacqueline Cioffa, author of bipolar memoir The Red Bench: A Descent and Ascent into Madness, and novels The Vast Landscape and Georgia Pine
Kitt O’Malley is an awesome advocate and an excellent storyteller. Her honesty shines through on each page of her book and gives the reader a glimpse into life with bipolar disorder.
—Gabe Howard, author of Mental Illness is an Asshole and Other Observations, host of The Psych Central Podcast and co-host of A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast, mental health speaker