Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder
By Julie A. Fast
- Release Date: 2012-01-02
- Genre: Self-Improvement
Description
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
Reviews
Spousal Support ❤️
5By abarnabiLiving with a mental illness is hard, loving someone with a mental illness is sometimes harder, and you can often feel unprepared. Julie’s book offers that extended hand. For us it wasn’t only answers to questions we had, but also a conversation starter. My husband spent years unsure of his role in my life as a partner to someone with bipolar 1 disorder. Julie’s book reaffirmed my need for him to not only understand my illness from a scientific standpoint, but also, for me at least, him playing a pivotal role when I am sick and need him to make decisions on what is best for me at that moment. Thanks, Julie!Ew.
2By candi fayeThis book is like a handbook toward being as codependent as possible. If you enjoy programs like Alanon, etc., you will probably think this book flies in the face of most of what you have been taught. It basically says, "Do you best to cure it, prevent it and control it." It's a guide, in my opinion, to insanity and doing someone else's therapy for themselves. I thought it would be about coping more and a little less about focus on the other person.Great book, helped me understand
5By mforee2011This book was great for helping me understand my husband and in turn helped our marriage. It has great info and strategies for dealing with bipolar episodes.
