Living With Someone Who's Living With Bipolar Disorder

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A Practical Guide for Family, Friends, and Coworkers

By Chelsea Lowe and Bruce M. Cohen

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Living With Someone Who's Living With Bipolar Disorder offers practical advice and insights for those who have a loved one with bipolar disorder. The authors guide readers through understanding the condition, managing challenges, and maintaining a strong relationship while ensuring personal well-being. This self-help book combines personal anecdotes and expert advice to provide supportive strategies for coping with the complexities of bipolar disorder in everyday life.
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This book may appeal to you if you're seeking practical advice and compassionate support for living with a loved one who has bipolar disorder. It offers valuable insights and strategies to help you enhance your understanding of the condition, improve communication, and manage challenges effectively, fostering healthier relationships and a positive environment.

Living With Someone Who's Living With Bipolar Disorder

Offers a warm and often humorous guide for coping with bipolar loved ones, colleagues, and friends Features a wealth of helpful strategies and coping mechanisms that can be put into action immediately Includes guidance on the best options for treatment, including discussion of when is medication a good idea and when isn't it .

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An essential resource for anyone who has a close relationship with a person who is bipolar, Living With Someone Who's Living With Bipolar Disorder provides a much-needed resource for family and friends of the more than 5 million American adults suffering from bipolar disorder.

From psychotic behaviour that requires medication to milder mood swings with disturbing ups and downs, this book offers a warm and often humorous user-friendly guide for coping with bipolar loved ones, colleagues, and friends.

The book includes:

Guidance for identifying bipolar disorder symptoms and how to get the diagnosis confirmed
Strategies for dealing with rants, attacks, blame, depression, mania, and other behaviours
Crucial information on medication, its effectiveness, and potential side-effects
Techniques for dealing with attempts to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol
How many people with bipolar disorders can care for themselves, get help, feel supported, and go on with their own lives

This important book contains real-life illustrative examples and a wealth of helpful strategies and coping mechanisms that can be put into action immediately.

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Living With Someone Who's Living With Bipolar Disorder by Chelsea Lowe and Bruce M. Cohen is praised for addressing the needs of those close to individuals with bipolar disorder. The authors use accessible language to cover diagnosis, treatment, and daily challenges, featuring vignettes from the perspective of the non-bipolar partner. The book provides specific advice on communication, support systems, and managing the impact of the disorder on personal and professional life, with a robust array of resources and practical guidance.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470475669

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 January 2010

Country: United States

Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 318g

Pages: 272

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Bruce M. Cohen Chelsea Lowe Health & Wellness Mindset & Self Help New Year, New You Non-Fiction Personal Development Philosophy & Psychology Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Chelsea Lowe is a health writer and essayist and the author of The Everything Health Guide to OCD. She has written feature articles and essays for NPR, Newsweek, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and other publications. Bruce M. Cohen, MD, PhD, is emeritus director of the Harvard University affiliated McLean Hospital and the Robertson-Steele Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cohen is a national leader in the study and treatment of bipolar disorders.