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Living With Someone Who´s Living With Bipolar Disorder: A Practical Guide for Family, Friends, and Coworkers
Chelsea Lowe
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Description for Living With Someone Who´s Living With Bipolar Disorder: A Practical Guide for Family, Friends, and Coworkers
Paperback. Offers a warm and often humorous guide for coping with bipolar loved ones, colleagues, and friendsFeatures a wealth of helpful strategies and coping mechanisms that can be put into action immediately
Includes guidance on the best options for treatment, including discussion of when is medication a good idea and when isn't it
. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: VFJB; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 346.
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 ... Read moreon 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.
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Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Place of Publication
New York, United States
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About Chelsea Lowe
Chelsea Lowe is a health writer and essayist and the author of The Everything Health Guide to OCD. She has written feature articles and essays for NPR, Newsweek, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and other publications. Bruce M. Cohen, MD, PhD, is emeritus director of the Harvard University affiliated McLean Hospital and the Robertson-Steele Professor ... Read moreof Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cohen is a national leader in the study and treatment of bipolar disorders. Show Less
Reviews for Living With Someone Who´s Living With Bipolar Disorder: A Practical Guide for Family, Friends, and Coworkers
Mental health columnist Lowe and Cohen (psychiatry, Harvard Univ.) team up to address the needs and concerns of those who are involved with someone who has bipolar disorder. They use nontechnical language to describe all aspects of diagnosis, treatment options, and day-to-day issues. Numerous vignettes of couples, told from the nonbipolar partner's point of view, personalize the narrative and also ... Read moremake clear how varied the symptoms, whether behavioral or emotional, can be. Specific advice is offered on communicating with family, friends, and work colleagues; developing a professional and nonprofessional support system; and navigating the impact of this disease on work and personal life. There is also an extensive reading list appended, and resources appropriate to the topic at hand are integrated into the text. Verdict: This offers practical help to those living with or related to a person who is or might be suffering from bipolar disorder. A guide on the nitty-gritty details of managing a relationship and a life, with a hefty dose of encouragement thrown in, this has lots of excellent resources for all aspects of diagnosis, treatment, communication, and coping.—Paula McMillen, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas (Library Journal, January 29, 2010) Show Less
