Prozac Monologues: A Voice from the Edge

Willa Goodfellow wrote a book about her experience with antidepressant-induced hypomania, which hijacked her Costa Rican vacation and led to her missed diagnosis of Bipolar 2. The book is part memoir, part self-help guide, and offers information about a mood disorder frequently mistaken for major depression, as well as resources for recovery and further study.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 02 November 2020
Publisher: She Writes Press

Years later, Willa Goodfellow revisits her account of the antidepressant-induced hypomania that hijacked her Costa Rican vacation and tells the rest of the story: her missed diagnosis of Bipolar 2, how she had been given the wrong medications, and finally, her process of recovery. Prozac Monologues is a book within a book—part memoir of misdiagnosis and part self-help guide about life on the bipolar spectrum. Through edgy and comedic essays, Goodfellow offers information about a mood disorder frequently mistaken for major depression as well as resources for recovery and further study. Plus, Costa Rica.

If your depression keeps coming back. . . If your antidepressant side effects are dreadful. . . If you are curious about the bipolar spectrum. . . If you want ideas for recovery from mental illness. . . If you care for somebody who might have more than depression. . . This book is for you.

Weight: 276g
Dimension: 139 x 215 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781631527319