When Sunny Mera isn’t working, she’s mothering and writing stories. She was inspired to write the story All in Her Headafter her battle with postpartum depression, psychosis, delusional disorder, and a diagnosis of severe mental illness. She comes from a privileged, educated, stable home, the medication she takes for her condition is effective for her, and she has never been criminalized for her illness. She has spent the last decade writing a narrative she can live with.

As a young girl growing up in the Midwest, Sunny is taught to think differently. Her parents are the founders of a small Christian school that practiced Socratic Discourse and encouraged its students to question everything—a lesson Sunny embraces wholeheartedly.

As Sunny grows older, she begins to build the life she’s always wanted: she marries, buys a house, enrolls in graduate school, and soon has a baby on the way. But when she experiences the psychological phenomena of orgasmic labor, it triggers a chain of bizarre events, and she gradually descends into a world of delusion and paranoia. As Sunny struggles to separate the real from the unreal, she relies upon friends and family to ground her in truth and love—and keep her from going over the edge into madness.