Fully Functioning: a postpartum descent into obsessive fangirling

by Eda J. Vor

It was a slow and painful realization that there was something wrong and the ease with which everyone else ignored it made it all the more squiggly to pin down. After all, a functional mother is one who can change a diaper and remember bedtimes. If she’s not falling to pieces, she’s fine.

Go down the rabbit-hole of hormone-induced mental illness and back again with a woman who survived postpartum depression through fanfiction addiction and found the clarity to confront the everyday demons of a troubled marriage, inadequate healthcare, and unattainable ideals of motherhood. This is the partially true story from an utterly unreliable narrator of how our culture fails mothers in their most desperate and vulnerable state.

208 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 30, 2019

About the author

Eda J. Vor is a woman who writes about women because women have stories too, dammit! When she's not wrangling her toddler or juggling two jobs, she's blogging about gender bias in children's media, fangirling stories and characters that spark her imagination and sense of cosmic justice, and complaining about various parenting woes and what to do about them on EdaJVor.blogspot.com. Eda is a fan of the amwriting and writer's hashtag games folks on Twitter.