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Overview

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

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781572243422
  • Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
  • Publication date: 2/1/2004
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 247,421
  • Series: The New Harbinger Loving Someone Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.96 (w) x 8.98 (h) x 0.48 (d)

Meet the Author

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, ABPP

is 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Chapter 1 Getting Started 1

Chapter 2 Treat Bipolar Disorder First 7

Chapter 3 Multipolar Disorder 18

Chapter 4 Medication Basics 34

Chapter 5 The Holistic Treatment Plan 54

Chapter 6 The "What Works" List 65

Chapter 7 Bipolar Disorder Triggers 79

Chapter 8 A Couple Takes Charge 102

Chapter 9 The Bipolar Conversation 127

Chapter 10 Your Emotional Response to Bipolar Disorder 144

Chapter 11 Work and Money l56

Chapter 12 S-E-X 172

Chapter 13 What about You? 184

Chapter 14 The Hard Truths about Bipolar Disorder 196

Chapter 15 How to Create Laughter and Joy in Your Relationship 210

Appendix Quick Reference Guide to Medications 219

Resources 237

References 239

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 25, 2007

    Should be titled...

    I had high hopes when reading this book. This book should have been re-titled, 'How to Tiptoe AROUND Someone with Bipolar'. I read this book twice. It does not teach or help someone understand bipolar or help them know what the illness truly does. Some of the tips in this book are good, but it really doesn't address the true ups and downs that someone with bipolar and the effect it has on their loved ones. I think if you want to learn to avoid bipolar, then pick up this book. If you want to truly understand bipolar, talk to your spouse, learn about bipolar, and pick another title.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 19, 2007

    Outstanding!

    This book was excellent to read. Most everything out there on bipolar disorder and what it is like dealing with those who suffer with BP is horrible and negative. This book is positive and loving. Definitely recommend it!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 5, 2008

    Recommend to Any Outsider Looking in

    I loved it. I recommend any outsider who is getting close to 'close family, best friends...' or romantically interested in a Bipolar to read this book. After reading it, I actually decided that if they really think they are interested, they need to read it first. It gives a reality check on what will come and how to deal with it- both medicated and not. The depth on how to manage, prevent, re-gain control, and the reality of the damage that can result was great. I felt there was true insight for someone as to what comes with bipolar disorder- and the honest reality of whether or not they would be willing to attempt the needed effort. A+

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  • Posted December 6, 2009

    keeping your sanity and love

    Very informative to a layman - written in an understandable, non-judgmental way; gives insight into the disorder; helpful in giving ways to deal with the onset of mania; very good explanation to the types of mania and symptoms associated with bipolar; what to expect and how to handle it. Gives you back your sanity.

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