When Someone You Love Is Bipolar

Author : Cynthia G. Last
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781606234020

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When Someone You Love Is Bipolar by Cynthia G. Last Pdf

When bipolar disorder afflicts the person you love, you suffer too. How have other couples learned to manage the relationship strains caused by this illness? What can you do to provide your partner with truly helpful nurturance and support? No one cares more deeply about these questions than Dr. Cynthia Last, a highly regarded therapist/researcher who also has bipolar disorder. Sharing stories and solutions from her own experience and the couples she has treated, Dr. Last offers heartfelt, practical guidance for getting through the out-of-control highs and the devastating lows--together. Learn how you can help your spouse come to terms with a bipolar diagnosis, get the most out of treatment, and reduce or prevent future mood episodes, while also taking care of yourself.

Author : Julie A. Fast,John D. Preston
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781608822218

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Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder by Julie A. Fast,John D. Preston Pdf

Maintaining a relationship is hard enough without the added challenges of your partner’s bipolar disorder symptoms. Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder offers information and step-by-step advice for helping your partner manage mood swings and impulsive actions, allowing you to finally focus on enjoying your relationship while also taking time for yourself. This book explains the symptoms of your partner’s disorder and offers strategies for preventing them and responding to these symptoms when they do occur. This updated edition includes a new section about the medications your partner may be taking so that you can understand the side effects and help monitor his or her bipolar treatment. As a supportive partner, you deserve support yourself. This book will help you create a more balanced, fulfilling relationship. Improve your relationship by learning how to: • Identify your partner’s symptom triggers so you can prevent episodes • Improve communication by stopping irrational “bipolar conversations” • Handle your partner’s emotional ups and downs • Foster closeness and connection with your partner

Author : Cynthia G. Last
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1606231243

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When Someone You Love Is Bipolar by Cynthia G. Last Pdf

When bipolar disorder afflicts the person you love, you suffer too. How have other couples learned to manage the relationship strains caused by this illness? What can you do to provide your partner with truly helpful nurturance and support? No one cares more deeply about these questions than Dr. Cynthia Last, a highly regarded therapist/researcher who also has bipolar disorder. Sharing stories and solutions from her own experience and the couples she has treated, Dr. Last offers heartfelt, practical guidance for getting through the out-of-control highs and the devastating lows--together. Learn how you can help your spouse come to terms with a bipolar diagnosis, get the most out of treatment, and reduce or prevent future mood episodes, while also taking care of yourself.

Author : Chelsea Lowe,Bruce M. Cohen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780470475669

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Living With Someone Who's Living With Bipolar Disorder by Chelsea Lowe,Bruce M. Cohen Pdf

An essential resource for anyone who has a close relationship with a person who is bipolar This book provides a much-needed resource for family and friends of the more than 5 million American adults suffering from bipolar disorder. From psychotic behavior that requires medication to milder mood swings with disturbing ups and down, this book offers a warm and often humorous user-friend 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 behaviors Crucial information on medication and 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458717320

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Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder (EasyRead Comfort Edition) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458717344

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Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jon P Bloch,Bernard Golden,Nancy Rosenfeld
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781440504457

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The Bipolar Relationship by Jon P Bloch,Bernard Golden,Nancy Rosenfeld Pdf

Bipolar is a condition that affects peoples' relationships with others as much as it affects their own mental state. When one person in a couple is experiencing the extreme highs and lows of a disorder like this one, it's impossible for their partner not to feel the strain too. Reassuring yet realistic, Dr. Bloch, Dr. Golden, and Nancy Rosenfeld explain what's normal, what's not, what might change, and what definitely won't. They provide information and advice on typical troubling relationship topics, such as: Communication Trust and loyalty Family planning Finances Sex Maintaining a sense of self By understanding the reality of bipolar and what it means for a relationship, couples will relate to each other better today and plan for a successful future together tomorrow.

Author : Stephen Arterburn,Becky Lyke Brown
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830772735

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Understanding and Loving a Person with Bipolar Disorder by Stephen Arterburn,Becky Lyke Brown Pdf

Becky Lyke Brown, M.S. teams up with Stephen Arterburn to offer: Insight into when to help and when to pull back How to connect with what a loved one is experiencing Expert advice on when and how to seek treatment Ideas for specific situations and conversations Help for self-care and personal boundaries Brown understands that loving someone who has bipolar disorder is a challenge on a daily basis. This practical resource reminds readers they are not alone.

Author : Julie A. Fast,John Preston
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781538725030

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Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder by Julie A. Fast,John Preston Pdf

Revised and updated, Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder is a groundbreaking, comprehensive program to help those with bipolar disorder—and those who care about them—gain permanent control over their lives. Most people diagnosed with bipolar disorder are sent home with the name of a doctor and multiple prescriptions. However, few people with bipolar disorder are able to find long-term stability with medications alone. Bipolar disorder researcher and expert Julie A. Fast, who was diagnosed with the illness at age thirty-one, and specialist John Preston, PsyD, offer the pioneering Take Charge program used around the world to help readers promote stability, reduce mood swings, increase work ability, decrease health care costs, and improve relationships. The book guides those with bipolar disorder and their loved ones toward a comprehensive personal treatment plan by incorporating: Medications and bipolar-safe supplements Lifestyle changes that help manage bipolar symptoms naturally Behavior modifications that reduce and prevent symptoms Guidelines on assembling an effective support team By helping readers gather powerful strategies, Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder delivers a dynamic program to treat this difficult but ultimately manageable illness.

Author : Candida Fink,Joe Kraynak
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781118432051

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Bipolar Disorder For Dummies by Candida Fink,Joe Kraynak Pdf

Get an accurate diagnosis and get on with enjoying and living your life! Bipolar Disorder affects many more people than just the millions who suffer from the disease. Like depression and other serious illnesses, bipolar disorder also affects spouses, partners, family members, friends, and coworkers. Bipolar Disorder For Dummies explains the brain chemistry behind the disease and covers the latest medications and therapies. You'll get reassuring, sound advice and self-help techniques that you and your loved ones, including kids and teens, can use to ease and eliminate symptoms, function in times of crisis, plan ahead for manic or depressive episodes, and feel a whole lot better. Covers new diagnosis methods developed by the American Psychiatric Association Increased coverage of genetics, biochemistry, and imaging studies relevant to bipolar disorder Advice on supporting a loved one (who may not want help) Updated and expanded medication guide and treatment options, including Deep Brain Stimulation Complete with fill-in-the-blank forms and charts, key online resources, and first-hand accounts from real people, Bipolar Disorder For Dummies gives you the latest information and self-help strategies you and your loved ones need to conquer this disease and get on with your lives.

Author : Natasha David
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780995854

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Marrying Bipolar by Natasha David Pdf

On the last day of winter in 2005, John committed suicide in his car on a lonely side road of the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney, Australia. He was six months shy of his thirtieth birthday. It was the culmination of nine years of struggle for John and his wife, as he battled undiagnosed mental illness, a gambling addiction, and an earlier suicide attempt. Despite his wife's love and attempts to understand his condition, in the end nothing could save John from his demons. Tragically, John’s story could be anybody's story. In Australia, around 2,100 people commit suicide every year; up to 12% of people affected by mental illness take their own lives (compared with an average of 1.7% for the whole population), and suicide is the main cause of premature death among people with mental illness. But the effects of suicide are even more far-reaching. Its impact on those left behind is frequently devastating and lifelong. The author knows this first-hand. Marrying Bipolar is the account of a wife’s struggle to understand the events in her husband’s life that would eventually lead to their marriage breakdown and his untimely death. Natasha’s experience watching her husband struggle with the complexity of mental illness, has led her understand the deadly role denial has to play, for both sufferer and partners. In the process, the author addresses her own search of ways to address denial of the darkness that resides in all of us, and the compassion needed to heal and rebuild lives after enduring.

Author : Julie A Fast
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0369323157

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Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder by Julie A Fast Pdf

Many of the techniques in this book take some time to get started. The beauty of adding laughter and joy to your relationship is that you can start immediately. You can get started today. In fact, you can get started right now and then help your partner do the same. Close this book and find something to make yourself laugh. Woo hoo! Remember something funny. Remember something wonderful about your partner. Think of all of the joy you have experienced in life and remind yourself that it can happen again. You now have the tools to make it happen. You have a new treatment plan that can work to help you recognize, modify, and hopefully prevent your partner's major bipolar disorder symptoms. Your relationship has the opportunity to be happy, healthy, stable, and filled with joy. This book can help you through the many ups and downs you and your partner will experience as you create a more stable relationship. Read it often to find what you need at certain moments. Remember to always treat bipolar disorder first. And, most importantly, remember that laughter and joy are your first option when things get really tough. They will give you the peace of mind you need to move on and face your problems with strength. You can both do it.----Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder

Author : Bonnie Rice
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781435748910

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Love Has Its Ups and Downs by Bonnie Rice Pdf

Love Has its Ups and Downs is a marriage manual and survival guide for living with a husband or wife who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and who has symptoms that are not entirely under control.

Author : Susan J. Noonan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781421420158

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When Someone You Know Has Depression by Susan J. Noonan Pdf

"Following on the success of Managing Your Depression, Susan Noonan's new book is for family members and friends of people with depression or bipolar disorder. A certified peer specialist at McLean Hospital (a comprehensive psychiatric hospital affiliated with Harvard University), Susan draws on her experiences providing support and education for those living with or caring for a person who has a mood disorder. A family member who has a mood disorder affects the entire family. Further, family members and close friends are often the first to recognize the subtle changes and symptoms of depression--and they are also the people who provide daily support to their loved ones, often at great personal price. Caring for someone with a mood disorder differs from caring for someone with a physical medical disorder, in ways that complicate the caregiving role. A concise and practical guide to the daily management of depression and bipolar depression written for the caregiver, the book explains how to reinforce lessons the patient has been taught in therapy, how to role model resilience skills, and how caregivers can and must care for themselves. It describes effective communication strategies and advises how to find appropriate professional help. Its many tables and worksheets convey much needed information in an accessible way. References, Resources, and a Glossary complete the package. Overall the book helps readers navigate the depression or biopolar disorder of someone close to them, providing readers with words to say and things to do as they try to help someone change the course of a sometimes confounding and often disabling illness"--

Author : Jeffrey Zuckerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1633373762

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Unglued by Jeffrey Zuckerman Pdf