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

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

Meg Kissinger

4.28 AVERAGE

amymadd's review

3.0

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

kpkp's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

It’s been a while since I’ve read a book I couldn’t put down but Meg Kissinger’s “While You Were Out” did just that. Filled with thoughtful, often painful, insight into her family’s experience with severe mental illness and laced with dark & light humor a like, I felt myself flying through each story, anecdote, and memory to get to the next one. It is a story both shocking and somehow relatable on so many levels. Meg Kissinger’s book has made me think deeper, laugh, gasp, and cry all in three days. What a wonderful book. I will be recommending to so many of my friends and family.

mck117's review

5.0

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

owen_being_owen's review

5.0

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Absolutely beautiful story that really captures what it's like to be a family member of someone who struggles with mental health and what's it's like to struggle. It gives a really good idea on just how new acceptance of mental health is and how far we are from where we should be

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