Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner

Description

Bipolar disorder is characterized by alternating periods of dramatically manic behaviour and episodes of extreme sadness and hopelessness, often with periods of normalcy in between. Those close to sufferers may experience feelings of constant uncertainty about the bipolar individual's mood. Specifically for the partner of a bipolar individual, learn how to control episodic crises and create a loving, healthy and supportive relationship. Find out what type of coping approaches work and which do not. Know when to call for help. All of the tactics in this book offer relief, engender a greater sense of stability and reassures the partner that this is absolutely achievable with patience and good advice.

Julie A. Fast is a leading bipolar disorder specialist and a critically acclaimed national speaker, family coach, and sought-after media source. She has been featured in US Weekly, Self Magazine, and on national radio. Her popular websites, www.juliefast.com and www.bipolarhappens.com have received over one million visitors. She lives in Portland, Oregon. John D. Preston, PsyD, ABPP, is professor emeritus at Alliant International University in Sacramento, CA. He is author or coauthor of over twenty books addressing psychotherapy, psychiatric medication treatment, and neurobiology, including the Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists (ISBN: 978-1572246980. He has presented continuing education conferences internationally. He lives in Shingle Springs, California.

I am truly impressed with this wonderful book. I will have it in my office and will recommend it to patients partners as a matter of course as they go through the journey with this illness. Steven Juergens, MD" "I am truly impressed with this wonderful book. I will have it in my office and will recommend it to patients' partners as a matter of course as they go through the journey with this illness." --Steven Juergens, MD