September 16, 2010
Living With Someone Who’s Living With Bipolar Disorder: A Practical Guide for Family, Friends, and Coworkers
Category: Bipolar Disorder
- ISBN13: 9780470475669
- Condition: New
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Product Description
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.
4 Responses to “Living With Someone Who’s Living With Bipolar Disorder: A Practical Guide for Family, Friends, and Coworkers”
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September 16th, 2010 at 10:28 am
I had been looking for a current book on BD and a book that was for someone on my end. My husband has be DX with DB since he was 18 and had a relaspe after we were just married. Before that he was in remission and I never saw his mood swings. This book is the perfect book to educate someone who does not have the illness and wants to learn more about it.
The book covers everything you would want to know about BD, I really liked the descriptions of the symptoms and the little story’s from actually people. Most of the websites and organizations sited in the book I know about, but there were a few new ones for me to discover.
It was comforting to read that what my husband goes through daily is his illness and not him just being lazy or forgetful on purpose. I told my husband he should read the book after I am done, maybe he will learn a little more about his illness.
The book is an easy read, this is the first book on BD that I have finished. I could not stop reading this book, the only reason I did not finish it the first day, was I needed to go to work the next day.
Rating: 5 / 5
September 16th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Living with Someone Who’s Living with Bipolar Disorder: A Practical Guide for Family, Friends and Coworkers provides a warm book on how to handle changing moods, ups and downs, and other behaviors. It’s designed as a non-technical, everyday coping guide and offers case histories and stories of how others developed effective coping strategies. General and health libraries will find this important considering the increasing diagnosis of bipolar with all its management implications.
Rating: 5 / 5
September 16th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
I had the pleasure of interviewing Chelsea Lowe and Dr. Bruce Cohen on my show Wisdom, Love and Magic! Both Chelsea and Dr. Cohen are very knowledgeable and empathic individuals who have written a wonderful ‘how to manual’ for bipolar disorder. It is an excellent resource chock full of incredibly valuable information that everyone who is suffering from, or in any way dealing with, bipolar disorder must have!
Rating: 5 / 5
September 16th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
I interviewed Dr. Bruce Cohen and well-known writer Chelsea Lowe for an article in [...]. While I do not live with a partner with bipolar, I still found the book fascinating and full of great advice. It is probably one of the best written books on this topic available today and I would highly recommend it. Here is a link to my interview with these two fascinating authors: [...]
Rating: 5 / 5