A Heartwrenching Story Of Parenting & Mental Illness

lllustrated by Daniel Koppich.Here's the situation: I want kids. I could have them. But I've decided that I shouldn't. I've fought mental illness since I was a child -- I remember being suicidal in fifth grade -- and I've been medicated since I was 15. First for depression; after I got dumped at a birthday party and took 47 aspirin in the bathroom, then walked calmly into the next room and told someone I'd just taken 47 aspirin, I was diagnosed with bipolar II disorder. I never get the expansive...