Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your PartnerMaintaining 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: |
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... some of the hopes and dreams you had for your relationship, while simultaneously taking decisive action to improve the relationship. • A journal in which you can explore your ideas, 4 Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder.
... journal exercises you will find in each chapter. Why keep a journal? Keeping a journal can seem like a lot of work at first, but it is an essential part of this program. The ideas and lists you write in this journal will become the ...
... journal every day. If you have children, teach them journaling techniques and let them write about their feelings about bipolar disorder. If they are old enough, make sure you include them in your new treatment plan. Children may seem ...
... journal will help you with this process, so have it ready.) When you talk honestly with your partner about how bipolar disorder has affected both your relationship and you personally, you set the cornerstone for your new foundation. As ...
... journal exercise will give you an idea of how you are currently feeling about bipolar disorder and the role it plays in your life. EXERCISE: Bipolar. Disorder. and. Your. Relationship. Answer the following questions in your journal: How has ...
Contents
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Chapter Five | 54 |
Chapter Six | 65 |
Chapter Seven | 79 |
Chapter Eight | 102 |
Chapter Ten | 144 |
Chapter Eleven | 156 |
Chapter Twelve | 172 |
Chapter Thirteen | 184 |
Chapter Fourteen | 196 |
Chapter Fifteen | 210 |
Appendix | 219 |
Chapter Nine | 127 |
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Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) Julie A. Fast Limited preview - 2004 |