Living with Someone Who's Living with Bipolar Disorder: A Practical Guide for Family, Friends, and Coworkers

An essential resource for anyone who has a close relationship with a person who is bipolar This...
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Author: Chelsea Lowe
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Living with Someone Who's Living with Bipolar Disorder: A Practical Guide for Family, Friends, and Coworkers by Lowe, Chelsea

Living with Someone Who's Living with Bipolar Disorder: A Practical Guide for Family, Friends, and Coworkers

€37,10

Living with Someone Who's Living with Bipolar Disorder: A Practical Guide for Family, Friends, and Coworkers

€37,10
Author: Chelsea Lowe
Format: Paperback
Language: English

An essential resource for anyone who has a close relationship with a person who is bipolar

This book provides a much-needed resource for family and friends of the more than 5 million American adults suffering from bipolar disorder. From psychotic behavior that requires medication to milder mood swings with disturbing ups and down, this book offers a warm and often humorous user-friend guide for coping with bipolar loved ones, colleagues, and friends. The book includes

  • Guidance for identifying bipolar disorder symptoms and how to get the diagnosis confirmed
  • Strategies for dealing with rants, attacks, blame, depression, mania and other behaviors
  • Crucial information on medication and its effectiveness and potential side-effects
  • Techniques for dealing with attempts to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol
  • How many people with bipolar disorders can care for themselves, get help, feel supported and go on with their own lives

This important book contains real-life illustrative examples and a wealth of helpful strategies and coping mechanisms that can be put into action immediately.



Author: Chelsea Lowe, Bruce M. Cohen
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 01/26/2010
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780470475669


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Annex 01/29/2010

About the Author

Chelsea Lowe is a health writer and essayist and the author of The Everything Health Guide to OCD. She has written feature articles and essays for NPR, Newsweek, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and other publications.

Bruce M. Cohen, MD, PhD, is emeritus director of the Harvard University- affiliated McLean Hospital and the Robertson-Steele Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cohen is a national leader in the study and treatment of bipolar disorders.


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