Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner

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New Harbinger Publications, Jan 2, 2012 - Psychology - 256 pages

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

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    Contents

    Chapter One
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    Chapter Two
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    Chapter Three
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    Chapter Four
    		34
    Chapter Five
    		54
    Chapter Six
    		65
    Chapter Seven
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    Chapter Eight
    		102
    Chapter Ten
    		144
    Chapter Eleven
    		156
    Chapter Twelve
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    Chapter Thirteen
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    Chapter Fourteen
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    Chapter Fifteen
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    Appendix
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    Copyright

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    About the author (2012)

    Julie A. Fast, freelance writer and Web master of www.juliefast.com, lives in the Pacific Northwest. She believes that with the right tools, bipolar disorder is a predictable and treatable illness.

    John D. Preston, PsyD, ABPPis professor emeritus at Alliant International University in Sacramento, CA, and has also served on the faculty of the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine and the Professional School of Psychology, San Francisco. He has authored twenty books in the areas of psychotherapy, neurobiology, and psychopharmacology, and coauthored Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple and Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists. Preston is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and has lectured internationally.

    Bibliographic information

    TitleLoving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner
    AuthorsJulie A. Fast, John Preston
    Edition2
    PublisherNew Harbinger Publications, 2012
    ISBN1608822206, 9781608822201
    Length256 pages
    Subjects ›  › 

    Psychology / Psychopathology / Bipolar Disorder
    Self-Help / Mood Disorders / Depression
      
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