Preventing Bipolar Relapse by Ruth C White

Preventing Bipolar Relapse by Ruth C White

If you buy just one book on bipolar disorder, let this be it.

There's an old saying: "Prevention is better than cure." If you have bipolar disorder, this is especially true. For you, it's incredibly important to read the warning signs of a possible episode. For instance, you may find you are not sleeping as well as usual, or you might be sleeping too much. You may stop doing things that you normally enjoy, or you may start acting out your impulses in ways that alienate those around you or get you into trouble.

While the path to wellness for those with bipolar may involve psychiatric visits and medication adjustments, preventing manic and depressive episodes is the true key to staying healthy and happy. So how do you do it? And most importantly, how can you keep yourself motivated?

In this powerful, breakthrough book, bipolar expert Ruth C. White shares her own personal approach to relapse prevention using the innovative program SNAP (Sleep, Nutrition, Activity, and People). White also offers practical tips and tracking tools you can use anytime, anywhere. By making necessary lifestyle adjustments, you can maintain balanced moods, recognize the warning signs of an oncoming episode, and make the necessary changes to reduce or prevent it.

This is the first and only book on bipolar disorder that focuses exclusively on prevention. To help you stay well, White includes links to helpful online tracking tools so that you can manage your symptoms, anytime, anywhere. If you are ready to stop living in fear of your next episode, this life-changing book can help you take charge of your diagnosis--and your life.

White, Ruth C.: - Ruth C. White is Associate Professor of Social Work at Seattle University in Seattle, WA, USA. She received her PhD in Social Welfare and MPH with double specialities in Maternal and Child Health and International Health from the University of California, Berkeley, and her MSW from McGill University in Montreal. She has worked with pregnant and parenting teenage mothers and perinatal women with substance abuse problems. Along with partners in Uganda she developed and co-managed a very successful community-based safe motherhood program - Maama Omwaana - which she later transferred to the Ugandan Ministry of Health. A World Affairs Council Fellow, she is also a member of the board of Health Alliance International - a global health NGO. Her new area of expertise is economics and she is interested in the impact of maternity leave policies on women's work force participation and the impact of microfinance programs on women and children. She also writes in the area of mental health. She teaches global development, macro social work practice and data analysis to undergraduate social work students at Seattle University in Seattle, WA, USA. Her policy blog takes on challenging issues and can be found at: provokingpolicy.blogspot.com. For more information on Dr. White: ruthcwhite.com

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ISBN 13	9781608828814
ISBN 10	1608828816
Title	Preventing Bipolar Relapse
Author	Ruth C White
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	New Harbinger Publications
Year published	2014-07-01
Number of pages	200
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