Watch them all online any time booktv. Org. You can also find us on twitter, facebook and youtube at booktv. A few years ago some colleagues and i started mindsite news as Early National new site focus solely on Mental Health reporting. We did so to fill a void, but long before we launched, my guest today, meg kissinger, was plowing background is one of the only reporters in the country working squarely on the Mental Health beat. For 35 years at the milwaukee journal sentinel, she covered the workings and mostly the failings of what we euphemistically call for Mental Health system in this country. But meg also knew about those issues on a much more personal level as wewh will talk about. Her memoir while you were out tells the story of growing up in the chicago suburbs with Seven Brothers and sisters,ha a charmg but manic father, a brilliant but melancholic and oftente abst mother, and a messy pile of secrets. Welcome, meg. Its a great to be with you and talking about this amazing work