Best Selling Author, Speaker, Columnist and Consultant

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JULIE A. FAST, best selling author of Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder, Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder and Get it Done When You're Depressed is a critically acclaimed six-time author, national speaker, and sought after expert in the fields of bipolar disorder and depression. Julie was diagnosed with rapid cycling bipolar disorder in 1995 at the age of thirty-one, after she had unknowingly lived with the disorder for over fourteen challenging and chaotic years. She regularly experiences mood swings, especially depression and uses the same treatment strategies she writes about in her books in order to continue her outstanding success as an author- even while struggling with bipolar disorder daily. Julie thrives on helping people with bipolar disorder (and those who love them) manage mood disorders so that they can live well in spite of the illness. She hopes that her story can be an inspiration to others.

Julie books have sold over 85,000 copies and her popular websites have received over one million visitors. Julie really does imagine a world where mood disorders are treated successfully.

Julie’s work includes :

  • Get It Done When You’re Depressed: 50 Strategies for Keeping Your Life on Track. (Penguin, 2008)

  • Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder: A 4-Step Plan for You and Your Loved Ones to Manage the Illness and Create Lasting Stability by Julie A Fast and John D. Preston (Time Warner, 2006)

  • Loving Someone With Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner by Julie A. Fast and John D. Preston (New Harbinger, 2004) Over 65,000 copies sold!

  • The Health Cards Treatment System for Bipolar Disorder by Julie A. Fast

  • Columnist for BP Hope Magazine Quarterly publication

June 2007
Julie received a Mental Health America journalism award for the best mental health column in the United States.

"Mental illnesses ruins lives, but it doesn’t have to be this way. I want my readers to know that if I can have a productive life despite being mentally ill, they can do so as well. The Mental Health America award helps me see that my writing does make a difference and it certainly makes me want to continue educating the world on how to treat mental illness successfully. It is possible!”  - Julie A. Fast

Offering hope and help to those with mental illness through her life skills, writing expertise, riveting honesty and ongoing goal of changing one life at a time, including her own is Julie's mission. This most recent award is yet one more reminder of her powerful skills and ability to share them with the world.

October 2007
Julie Fast received Eli Lilly Reintegration Achievement Award for her work helping people successfully manage bipolar disorder.


 

Julie A. Fast with co-author
John D. Preston, PSY.D

Julie's Books


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