<sod>While in D.C., Danquah recognized that she suffered from [[clinical depression]], an illness that would become the basis for her memoir ''Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression''. The memoir was published in 1998 to critical praise.<ref name=WPReview>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1998/04/05/up-from-despair/f3493a26-6cf3-4d48-91b2-0e843115a35c/|title=Up from Despair|first=Rachel|last=Jones|work=The Washington Post|date=5 April 1998}}</ref><ref name=PWReview>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-393-04567-3|title=Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression|publisher=Publisher's Weekly|accessdate=26 February 2016}}</ref><ref name=Kirkus>{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/meri-nana-ama-danquah/willow-weep-for-me/|title=Meri Nana-Ama Danquah: Willow Weep for Me|publisher=Kirkus Reviews}}</ref><eod>
<sod>While in D.C., Danquah recognized that she suffered from [[clinical depression]], an illness that would become the basis for her memoir ''Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression''. The memoir was published in 1998 to critical praise.<ref name=WPReview>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1998/04/05/up-from-despair/f3493a26-6cf3-4d48-91b2-0e843115a35c/|title=Up from Despair|first=Rachel|last=Jones|work=The Washington Post|date=5 April 1998}}</ref><ref name=PWReview>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-393-04567-3|title=Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression|publisher=Publisher's Weekly|accessdate=26 February 2016}}</ref><ref name=Kirkus>{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/meri-nana-ama-danquah/willow-weep-for-me/|title=Meri Nana-Ama Danquah: Willow Weep for Me|publisher=Kirkus Reviews}}</ref> Excerpts from the book were published in the anthology ''Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness''.<ref name=Shannonhouse>{{cite book|last1=Shannonhouse|first1=Rebecca|title=Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness|date=2000|publisher=The Modern Library|isbn=9780679603306|page=151-155|edition=First}}</ref><eod>