Julie is the author of Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder, Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder,  Get it Done When You’re Depressed and The Health Cards Treatment System for Bipolar Disorder. She is a columnist and blogger for BP Magazine for Bipolar at www.BPHope.com and won the Mental Health America journalism award for the best mental health column in the US. She was the original consultant for Claire Danes for the show Homeland and is on the mental health expert registry for People Magazine. She works as a coach for parents and partners of people with bipolar disorder and other mental health concerns and is currently writing a book for children called Hortensia and the Magical Brain: Poems for Kids with Bipolar, Anxiety, Psychosis and Depression. Her blog at Bipolar Happens was just named a top blog of 2017 by Healthline.com.

You can find more about her work atwww.JulieFast.com, www.BipolarHappens.com and on Facebook at Julie A. Fast Books.