Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder
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When a person loves someone with bipolar disorder, life can be very stressful. From medication troubles to a partner s mood swings the demands on a partner can be intense. Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder takes a unique and practical approach to these issues. Written by an author who has bipolar disorder (and who lived with a partner who also has bipolar disorder) and a coauthor with over ten books on the topic of mental illness, the book offers specific, practical and realistic tips on how a couple can work together as a team to create a treatment plan that teaches them to live with the illness while still maintaining a loving and joyful relationship. (Although this book is written for couples, friends and family members can use the techniques in the book as well.) Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder provides hope and encourages couples to work together to create a plan they can use to help stabilize bipolar disorder so that their relationship can focus on love and companionship instead of the illness. Chapters include ideas on how to create a holistic treatment plan that incorporates medications and supplements, diet, exercise and behavior and lifestyle changes into one practical approach to this very serious illness. The partner of a person with bipolar disorder learns about communicating with their partner when they re ill, getting real about the situation and how to take on other roles in healing besides caretaking. Other specific topics include work and money, emotions, sexual issues and much more. The goal of the book is to help couples create a relationship that is based on support and prevention instead of constant crisis control.
AcknowledgmentsviiChapter 1Getting Started1Chapter 2Treat Bipolar Disorder First9Chapter 3Multipolar Disorder21Chapter 4The Holistic Treatment Plan39Chapter 5The "What Works" List51Chapter 6Bipolar Disorder Triggers65Chapter 7A Couple Takes Charge89Chapter 8The Bipolar Conversation115Chapter 9Your Emotional Response to Bipolar Disorder133Chapter 10Work and Money147Chapter 11S-E-X163Chapter 12What about You?175Chapter 13The Hard Truths about Bipolar Disorder187Chapter 14Laughter and Joy203References213
