When Meg Kissinger was growing up on the North Shore in the 1960s, her big Irish-Catholic family appeared fairly typical from the outside. She and her seven siblings were quite good at projecting a sense of normalcy, even when life at home was spiraling out of control. Her mother suffered from anxiety and depression — although these terms were never used at the time — while her manic father could turn violent. Several siblings battled mental health problems of their own, yet they all intuitively followed the unspoken family rule: you don’t talk about it. Kissinger decided that, even after […]
North Shore native tells how she compiled family’s mental health struggles in ‘While You Were Out’
