Category: Mental Health

#ReadUP: Reckoning with mental illness.

November 13, 2020

This post is published as part of the Association of University Press’s University Press Week blog tour. #ReadUP.   Mindy Greiling was a state legislator for twenty years. She helped found the nation’s first state mental health caucus, and has served on state and national boards of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Greiling’s son, … More #ReadUP: Reckoning with mental illness.

On writing—and processing, and editing—difficult matters in a memoir.

November 10, 2020

BY MINDY GREILING Mental health advocate and former state legislator Describing my personal feelings was the hardest part of writing my memoir. My writing group nurtured my fledgling attempts to capture the story of son Jim’s mental illness and my legislative work, but after offering encouraging compliments, they would invariably ask things like, “But, Mindy, … More On writing—and processing, and editing—difficult matters in a memoir.