About Prozac Monologues: A Voice From The Edge:

In her debut book, Prozac Monologues: A Voice from the Edge, mental health journalist and Episcopal priest Willa Goodfellow shares her journey to recovery with transparent detail — from an antidepressant-induced hypomania that hijacked her Costa Rican vacation to the discovery that she had been misdiagnosed to learning how to manage life on the bipolar spectrum.

This raw, vulnerable collection of essays offers both a memoir and a self-help guide to others struggling with mental illness, including those on the bipolar spectrum who, like Goodfellow, are often initially diagnosed with depression.

Most recently appearing in Psychology Today, Goodfellow continues to write, present at conferences, and speak on podcasts on topics of depression and bipolar disorders, suicide, recovery, and faith.

Author Bio:

Willa Goodfellow’s early work with troubled teens as an Episcopal priest shaped an edgy perspective and preaching style. A bachelor’s degree from Reed College and a master’s from Yale gave her the intellectual chops to read and comprehend scientific research about mental illness—and her life mileage taught her to recognize and call out the bull.

So she set out to turn her own misbegotten sojourn in the land of antidepressants into a writing career. Her journalism has attracted the attention of leading psychiatrists who worked on the DSM-5. She is certified in Mental Health First Aid, graduated from NAMI’s Peer-to-Peer program, and has presented on mental health recovery at NAMI events and Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa.

Today she hikes, travels, plans seven-course dinner menus, works on her next writing project, Bar Tales of Costa Rica, and stirs up trouble. She lives with her wife, Helen, in Central Oregon, sometimes in Costa Rica, and still misses her dog, Mazie.