Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner
Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder is a first of its kind book—written specifically for the partner of a person with bipolar disorder. If you have a loved one with bipolar, you know how disruptive and straining this disorder can be to your relationship. You may experience feelings of fear,...
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Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder is a first of its kind book—written specifically for the partner of a person with bipolar disorder. If you have a loved one with bipolar, you know how disruptive and straining this disorder can be to your relationship. You may experience feelings of fear, loss, and anxiety as well as a constant uncertainly about your loved one’s ever-changing moods.This book is designed to help you overcome the unique challenges of loving someone with bipolar disorder. With the supportive and helpful information, strategies, and real-life examples contained here, you’ll have all the tools you need to create a loving, healthy, and close relationship.Find out how to: Identify which coping approaches work and which do not Recognize and transform a “bipolar conversation” Use new strategies to help manage episodic crises Survive the financial turbulence manic spending may cause Deal with problematic sexual issues Increase closeness and stability in your relationship
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781572243422 (1572243422)
Publish date: February 1st 2004
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
My husband has bipolar disorder. I finally got tired of not understanding him and got this book to better understand what is going on inside his head. I loved that this book offered a great set of steps to treat him, but there were a few elements that left me a bit shaky. I found the plan that he ...