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.
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The are other sides of me, of course.
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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.
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I live in a small and very pleasant cottage in a rural town in New England.
When not writing, I am, basically, a housewife. And I love that,
too.
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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© 1999, 2000 Kathryn Cohan
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