About Me
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My name is Dawn Viggiani. I was once homeless, from late October 2019 – mid November 2020, living in Manhattan bank ATM’s, having come from a somewhat upscale lifestyle prior. I had been in this particular psychosis since 2017 and thought I was Donald Trump’s actual wife, that Melania was a stand in for me, that the Democrat Party was working against me, and that I would be rescued by Donald and brought to The White House to assume my duties as First Lady.
My story speaks of resolving childhood and adult trauma (much including the trauma of homelessness), cathartically, by expressing excerpts thread to my current and productive situation, accruing pages to become an intimate memoir. I am calling the blog, At Home in Society, because I am now solvent and while homeless found conceptual semblance among the public--or the audience, so to speak--and because I have a penchant for choice living and pearls.
Having legitimately been in the arts (singer [trained bel canto], songwriter, actress [trained in The Method & Meisner acting], painter [Abstract Expressionism], poet) and a former freelance writer and editor, I am now working as a case manager at a men’s shelter, near my lovely retirement flat in the Bronx. I will tell you about my life as an artist and what it is like to have developed schizoaffective disorder/bipolar type at the age of 39 and to have been psychotic several times, which precipitated a 21-year demise. I am now 60 years old.
Thank you for joining me.
Always,
Dawn
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