Jun 14, 2008 at 06:00AM

One family's journey with bipolar disease.

Today, Host Parthenia Izzard, will be talking with Kate McLaughlin, author of Mommy I'm Still in Here: One family's journey with bipolar disease.

For parents, nothing rivals the pain of losing a precious, promising child to mental illness. Kate L. McLaughlin knows the horror of watching a bright, popular, responsible, and generally cooperative teenager abruptly change into a different, extremely difficult, and dangerously unstable person. She experienced a parent's worst nightmare firsthand-twice. Two of her three children, now young adults, were diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder during
adolescence. MOMMY, I'M STILL IN HERE: One Family's Journey with Bipolar Disorder is her candid, courageous, and uplifting account of suffering, helplessness, grief, guilt, and acceptance.

Kate L. McLaughlin is a member of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance on Mental Illness and the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation. She also participates in NAMI's Family-to-Family program. She lives in Arizona with her husband, Mark, and their youngest daughter, Monica.

At the end of the program will be Monique's Moments with Monique Chapman. She will share her intuition about world events and caller's non-medical concerns.