Introduces an effective and comprehensive program for those suffering from bipolar disorder and their loved ones, explaining how to promote stability, reduce the risk of suicide, improve relationships, decrease health-care costs, and increase work ability through a combination of lifestyle change, b[...]
This fully revised and updated second edition of the bestselling "Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder" discusses all aspects of readers' relationships with bipolar partners: work, money, sex, medications and their side effects, therapeutic treatments, and more. Also called manic depressive disorder[...]
Bipolar disorder is characterized by alternating periods of dramatically manic behavior and episodes of extreme sadness and hopelessness, often with periods of normalcy in between. Those close to bipolar individuals may experience feelings of fear, loss, and anxiety and a constant uncertainty about [...]
Explaining how to overcome the vicious cycle of depression, a collection of helpful strategies reveals how to prepare oneself mentally for working while depressed, how to structure one's environment to work more easily, how to work effectively with others, how to prevent depression, and more. Origin[...]