Former Milwaukee reporter Meg Kissinger shares her family’s mental health struggles in new book
Meg Kissinger, whose reporting on the broken Milwaukee County mental health care system led to public policy changes, has told the story of her own family's mental health crises in her new book "While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence.
Through interviewing her surviving siblings; digging through diaries and letters, public and medical records; and even tracking down a babysitter from decades ago, Kissinger pieces together the portrait of a clan that's simultaneously loving and troubled, writes Jim Higgins of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.