What do you know - found it very quickly!  It was posted on January 12 of this year.

I, too, Kimberly apprecriate you candor and commend your courage in your attempt to recover and progress. My family(s) stories are a bit different in that both my mom and dad (since deceased) and my mother-in-law not only planted the seeds of my mania and anxiety, but my mother in law continues to deny everything to everyone else in the family - remarking that my somewhat unusual behaviors are merely excuses. She will read a newspaper article or watch an Oprah-type program, call me immediately and ask my if "that's what I have?" While my response is generally to the positive she can come from left field on some issues.

I have a Masters of Fine Arts with a concentration in conducting and musicology. In addition to that I am a pretty good amateur golfer and hold a BA in vocal pedagogy. My father insisted that I could be the first opera star who played golf in the off season, which is absolutely impossible, and hence I proved a failure in their eyes. Because conducting and musicology are my loves, I continued to study what I wanted to but was reminded that they really would rather brag about my golf or vocal performance instead of waving my arms in from of an orchestra with my back to an audience. It was actually their gratification that was at the center of the controversy. Because of my husband's job, we were forced to relocate halfway across the country; the telephone kept us in touch but we really had no idea of what was being said about me to others. When my mother died my father locked me out of the house and was told that the family had been informed that I had been institutionalized (hence the move) because of my crazy behavior. This was clearly evident when, at my mother's funeral; the entire family was amazed that they "let me out" to come to the funeral activities. I tried to tell cousins etc. the truth but no one believed me. In actuality I was being seen by a psychiatrist and therapist but certainly had no need to be hospitalized.

Because of financial troubles and my mother in law's age (85 going on 40) we moved back to the Midwest and were invited to live with her until we got back on our feet. I (but not my husband) was thrown out of her house and told not to return. We made amends, although no apology or mention of that activity is ever mentioned because "we are not supposed to upset or contradict her." Later, when my sister-in-law faced identity theft, I was blamed for no reason at all except my married name and her maiden name were the same and she never bothered to change it on any credit or loan accounts three years after her marriage. I was called a thief, felon and everything else in the book and, once again, thrown out of her house, this time with no possibility of reconciliation. She calls me daily for answers to her problems and wants to know what is going on my life. The antitheses of of these actions only contribute to situations that thow me into confusion, anxiety and mistrust that is uncontrollable without medication. We are back on our feet, barely, and this woman continues to stress me in ways that have been diagnosed as frontal lobe seizures and her behavior exacerbates the bipolar condition, not to mention the anxiety at the mere possibility of meeting her face-to-face, even though I am once again allowed in her home. I look at it as having been thrown of of my home three times, and a vacillation of behavior on her part is overwhelming. Just as I was learning to deal with my own trials, my progress is continually undermined by my reaction to her actions. So now it is my husband and I against the world in a community that equates mental illness with crazy whose treatment is nothing but pill popping and sloth. I am sad about this but to function and live a normal live is continually undermined by, now, in-law siblings, their grown children and half the town. Wish me and mom luck. Thank you.

- MK

I continue to take medication (currently citalopram, klonopin, tranxene and lamitcal.