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Loving Someone with a Serious Mental Illness
Caring for Your Loved One and Yourself on the Journey to Mental Health Recovery
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Powerful and practical tools to help you support your loved one with serious mental illness, while also making room for your own needs. If you have a loved one—a spouse, adult child, or other family member—who has a mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or...
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Written by a husband-and-wife team—and drawing on their own lived experience navigating mental illness together—this much-needed guide offers compassionate advice and effective strategies to help readers support their loved one in a crisis, make room for self-care, and create shared goals for recovery.
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Powerful and practical tools to help you support your loved one with serious mental illness, while also making room for your own needs.
If you have a loved one—a spouse, adult child, or other family member—who has a mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or depression and is experiencing symptoms like psychosis, you need help right now. Delusions and hearing voices can be frightening. Mania can be unpredictable. Isolation and withdrawal can make things worse. Things are made even more challenging when your loved one is resistant to treatment. You may feel helpless watching them struggle. And you may question whether you can handle the myriad everyday practical and emotional challenges ahead. It’s important to know that you are not alone.
Authors Katherine Ponte and Izzy Goncalves have been there. They are there. During Katherine’s ongoing eighteen-year recovery from severe bipolar disorder and depression, her husband Izzy has been her primary caregiver. Together through trial, trauma, and triumph, they have amassed an unmatched store of lived experiences, shared perspectives, and lessons learned. They now bravely share, for the first time, everything they have come to understand about the challenges they’ve faced and surmounted together.
A vital resource for families combating mental illness, Loving Someone with a Serious Mental Illness will help you:
- Recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness
- Maintain and improve communication between you and your loved one
- Better understand your loved one’s feelings and emotions
- Handle special situations, including de-escalating an emergency
- Discover different options for treatment
- Make room for self-care
The book never forgets one crucial truth: you have needs, too. That’s why the authors provide resources to ensure that you stay healthy, well-rested, and energized, so you can help your loved one on the path to recovery.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781648483837
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 March 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: New Harbinger Publications
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 224.0mm
Weight: 240g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Katherine Ponte is a mental health advocate, author, nonprofit leader, entrepreneur, coach, and lawyer. She is a certified psychiatric rehabilitation practitioner, and a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and a graduate of The University of Pennsylvania. She built the ForLikeMinds platform of recovery-focused mental health initiatives and its associated community of over 150,000 that has reached millions. She is on the board of the National Alliance on Mental Illness-NYC. Katherine is author of ForLikeMinds. She has lived with severe bipolar I disorder with psychosis, including extended periods of suicidal depression for over twenty years, and has been happily living in recovery since 2018. She is based in New York, NY, and the Catskills.
Izzy Goncalves has worked in finance for nearly thirty years, and has been the primary caregiver for his spouse, Katherine. He has been instrumental in helping her develop several mental illness recovery initiatives. He is a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Brown University.Foreword writer Matt Kudish, LMSW, MPA, is CEO of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City, Inc. He has taught at the Columbia School of Social Work at Columbia University, and has guest lectured at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University.
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