Kathryn Cohan
About Me

I am not sure where to begin. Is this picture worth a thousand words, I wonder? What do you see? A blonde, middle aged woman in pretty good health (all things considered) is smiling at you. I snapped this picture in October 1999, using the vidcam that sits on top of my computer. I love computers and toys. The psychiatric story of my life is captured in an essay called Inner Science. If you are interested in knowing the "deep background" kind of stuff about me, that is probably a good thing for you to read.

I married my husband, John, after six years of getting to know each other for better and for worse. This man saved my life and gave me a new one. I am the mother of two teen aged kids -- a daughter and a son -- whose privacy I respect enough to not publish information about them on the Web.

In the process of co-locating my essays to this portal, I was asked by the management if I hoped bipolar disorder would be cured or substantially improved in, say, the next 10-20 years and also what I hoped people would get out of my site. I'll just publish my reply right here, as a sort of conclusion to "About Me":

And if a cure for bipolar disorder was offered me tomorrow I'd refuse it... the benefits of madness far outweigh the negatives and I think it is not mental illness that needs to be "cured" it is, rather, a society that shames it and refuses to accommodate it that does.

I think of myself as a very lucky woman. I have survived and lived to tell the tale.

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