Download or read book Friends How Do You Cope When Your Friend Has Bipolar written by Julia Busquets and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is all about helping those who are friends with someone living with bipolar disorder. Friendships are quite difficult to maintain when you have bipolar disorder, so it is very special when you find people willing to go through the highs and the lows with you. My friends have given their views on how they deal with me and what they do when the chaos and intensity become too much for them. The one thing they all say is, even when it becomes too much, they would never walk away.
Download or read book Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Bipolar Disorder revision written by American Psychiatric Association and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 2002 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides treatment recommendations for bipolar patients, a review of evidence about bipolar disorder, and states research needs
Download or read book Living With Someone Who s Living With Bipolar Disorder written by Chelsea Lowe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder written by Julie A. Fast and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book High Tide Low Tide written by Martin Baker and published by Nordland Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Can You Be a Good Friend, When Your Friend Lives with Mental Illness? We all want to be there for our friends, but when your friend lives with mental illness it can be hard to know what to do, especially if you live far apart. Transatlantic best friends Martin Baker and Fran Houston share what they've learned about growing a supportive, mutually rewarding friendship between a "well one" and an "ill one." "High Tide, Low Tide: The Caring Friend's Guide to Bipolar Disorder" offers no-nonsense advice from the caring friend's point of view, original approaches and practical tips, illustrated with real-life conversations and examples. No One Is Too Far Away to Be Cared for, or to Care Support your friend and celebrate each other, whether you live on the same street or oceans apart. Learn the key skills and attitudes you need for a successful caring friendship, and strategies to support your friend through episodes of mania, depression, and suicidal thinking, whilst also taking care of yourself.
Download or read book When Someone You Know Has Depression written by Susan J. Noonan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--
Download or read book High Tide Low Tide The Caring Friend s Guide to Bipolar Disorder Revised Edition written by Fran Houston and published by Kingston Park Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you be a good friend when your friend lives with mental illness? We all want to be there for our friends, but it can be hard to know what to do when your friend lives with mental illness, especially if you live far apart. Transatlantic best friends Martin Baker and Fran Houston share what they've learned about growing a supportive, mutually rewarding friendship between a "well one" and an "ill one." Revised and updated, High Tide, Low Tide: The Caring Friend's Guide to Bipolar Disorder offers no-nonsense advice from the caring friend's point of view, original approaches and practical tips, illustrated with real-life conversations and examples. No one is too far away to be cared for or to care Support your friend and celebrate each other, whether you live on the same street or oceans apart. Learn the key skills and attitudes you need for a successful caring friendship, and strategies to support your friend through episodes of mania, depression, and suicidal thinking, whilst also taking care of yourself.
Download or read book Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder written by Julie A. Fast and published by Balance. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book How to Cope with Bipolar Disorder in Relationships written by Agatha I. Spencer and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absence of relationship is like life without air, rivers without water and birds without nests, relationships are inevitable and especially when you're handicapped. I've lived through the thorns of bipolar disorder; robbed of my crush in college because he couldn't cope with my madness, I've lost best friends, I've stained myself and I've had nice moments too...within this intervals I was gradually building bricks which I later turned to my solid rock.Having bipolar disorder can be traumatic, and depressive; relationship rubs off the wanton feelings of anxiety and agitation. Everybody needs to be loved, everybody want to save their home, keep their family and friends and for the bipolar patients this is often the case too, you need someone when you're stuck at the bridge, so how can you possibly deal with this? Well I've got it covered, in this simple book, I've simplified everything. It cuts across; Why relationship is important as a bipolar patient Advice for romantic relationship How to cope in your relationship How not to ruin your relationships How to involve your loved ones Getting along with friends, partners and how not to lose them Getting along in school And many more I know you want to thrive in every area of your life, I know you find it difficult to focus, that is why I've made it an easy and short read, the tips in this book works if applied correctly. I've delivered this for high costs during seminars and psychotherapy sessions, but it's all simplified and made cheaper for you. Grab the chance and save your relationship today.
Download or read book Intact written by Sasha Kildare and published by Author Academy Elite. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doses of dark humor and poetry punctuate this riveting memoir and informational guide of how integrative treatment and spirituality can heal.
Download or read book When Someone You Love Is Bipolar written by Cynthia G. Last and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Help for Helpers written by Anonymous and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by addiction treatment center staff members from across the country, these daily meditations encourage, comfort, and challenge helpers to understand others and themselves. Written by counselors for counselors, Help for Helpers is the only meditation book of its kind. As relevant and popular today as it was when it was first published more than 25 years ago, this book offers personal reflections and guidance to those who help addicts recover. Nearly 200 topics cover the gamut of challenges counselors commonly face, from ways to avoid burnout and fatigue to how to achieve balance and serenity in one's life.
Download or read book The Everything Health Guide To Adult Bipolar Disorder written by Jon P Bloch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Download or read book Bipolar Disorder written by Francis Mark Mondimore and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For persons with bipolar disorder and their families, here is a comprehensive, practical, compassionate guide to the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment. 22 illustrations.
Download or read book The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder written by Sheri Van Dijk and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even if you've just been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, it's likely that you've been living with it for a long time. You've probably already developed your own ways of coping with recurring depression, the consequences of manic episodes, and the constant, uncomfortable feeling that you're at the mercy of your emotions. Some of these methods may work; others might do more harm than good. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder will help you integrate your coping skills with a new and effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) plan for living well with bipolar disorder. The four DBT skills you'll learn in this workbook-mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness-will help you manage your emotional ups and downs and minimize the frequency and intensity of depressive and manic episodes. By using this book in conjunction with medication and professional care, you'll soon experience relief from your bipolar symptoms and come to enjoy the calm and confident feeling of being in control. Learn mindfulness and acceptance skills Cope with depressive and manic episodes in healthy ways Manage difficult emotions and impulsive urges Maintain relationships with friends and family members
Download or read book When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness written by Rebecca Woolis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-09-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable book about love and mental health addresses the short-term, daily problems of living with a person with mental illness, as well as long-term planning and care. Of special note are the forty-three “Quick Reference Guides” about such topics as: responding to hallucinations, delusions, violence and anger; helping your loved one comply with treatment plans and medication; deciding if the person should live at home or in a facility; choosing a doctor and dealing with mental health professionals; handling the holidays and family activities; managing stress; helping siblings and adult children with their special concerns. “Ms. Woolis produced a handbook which is both practical and accessible, eminently useful for all of us who have a family member with a serious mental illness.” –E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., author of Surviving Schizophrenia “Rebecca Woolis presents easy-to-follow practical guidelines for coping with the multitude of problems that regularly confront families. In minutes the reader can find helpful suggestions for dealing with any problem that might arise.” –Christopher S. Amenson, Ph.D., Director, Pacific Clinics East
Download or read book Bipolar Shoes written by Dave O'Riordan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave O'Riordan, Author, and Bipolar disorder survivor, shares his story in the hopes of helping others understand this complex mental illness a little bit better. O'Riordan tells his story in a way that is honest, funny and fascinating. Bipolar Shoes starts with his childhood in Ireland and ends with a fresh view of Bipolar Disorder. Bipolar Shoes is an inspirational story of courage and determination of one man's struggles and triumphs with Bipolar Disorder.
