Living With Someone Who's Living With Bipolar Disorder by Chelsea Lowe

Living With Someone Who's Living With Bipolar Disorder by Chelsea Lowe

Offers a warm and often humorous guide for coping with bipolar loved ones, colleagues, and friendsFeatures a wealth of helpful strategies and coping mechanisms that can be put into action immediatelyIncludes guidance on the best options for treatment, including discussion of when is medication a good idea and when isn't it.

Mental health columnist Lowe and Cohen (psychiatry, Harvard Univ) team up to address the needs and concerns of those who are involved with someone who has bipolar disorder. They use nontechnical language to describe all aspects of diagnosis, treatment options, and day-to-day issues. Numerous vignettes of couples, told from the nonbipolar partner's point of view, personalize the narrative and also make clear how varied the symptoms, whether behavioral or emotional, can be. Specific advice is offered on communicating with family, friends, and work colleagues; developing a professional and nonprofessional support system; and navigating the impact of this disease on work and personal life. There is also an extensive reading list appended, and resources appropriate to the topic at hand are integrated into the text.
Verdict: This offers practical help to those living with or related to a person who is or might be suffering from bipolar disorder. A guide on the nitty-gritty details of managing a relationship and a life, with a hefty dose of encouragement thrown in, this has lots of excellent resources for all aspects of diagnosis, treatment, communication, and coping.—Paula McMillen, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas (Library Journal, January 29, 2010)

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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ISBN 13	9780470475669
ISBN 10	0470475668
Title	Living With Someone Who's Living With Bipolar Disorder
Author	Chelsea Lowe
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons Inc
Year published	2010-01-28
Number of pages	272
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