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Bipolar Disorder affects many more people than just the 2.5 million Americans who suffer from the disease Like depression and other serious illnesses, bipolar disorder also affects spouses, partners, family members, friends and coworkers. And, according to the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation, 15% of children diagnosed with ADHD may actually be suffering from early-onset of Bipolar Disorder.

Bipolar Disorder For Dummies reveals some of the causes and consequences of bipolar disorder, let you in on some crisis survival strategies, and describe ways that friends and family members can support loved ones who have the disease. The book includes an overview of the causes and symptoms of bipolar disorder, explains step-by-step how to obtain an accurate diagnosis, discusses the medications available, and tells what you can and can't do to help someone with the disease. You'll learn:

• The different categories and potential causes of bipolar disorder
• How to select the right mental health specialist
• Managing employment-related issues brought on because of the disorder
• How bipolar disorder affects children
• Advocating for yourself or a loved one
• Planning ahead for manic and depressive episodes
• Selecting the best medications for you—including alternative "natural" treatments
• How to survive an immediate crisis situation
• Identifying triggers and mapping your moods

Complete with fill-in-the-blanks forms and charts, key web site and email addresses, and first-hand accounts from real people, Bipolar Disorder For Dummies gives you the latest information and self-help strategies you and your loved ones need to help everyone affected feel a whole lot better..
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Celebrated humorist and columnist Susan Reinhardt hits another homerun with "Don't Sleep with a Bubba," the follow-up collection of wild and heartfelt stories to "Not Tonight Wait 'Til I"m a Size 6."

In "Don't Sleep with a Bubba," she runs into her usual hilarious suspects: the dog that underwent liposuction of the "private parts," the drunk that got a DWI on horseback while getting a Happy Meal on his steed at the drive-thru, and her crazy sister's antics, which include painting her grass green in the winter, selling Jesus pancakes on eBay, and her outrageous pre-school teaching practices.

While most of Reinhardt's stories are colorful and hilarious, she goes into a deeper side with this new book and reveals her horror with a date rape at a frat house when she was 17, and a nine-day stay in a psyche ward for a plunging depression.

Vivid, candid and heartfelt, her stories will both entertain and inspire..
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The revolution in psychiatry that began mid-century has led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness. No other mental disorder has been the subject of such clinically useful and scientifically productive research. This book is the first to survey this massive body of evidence comprehensively and to assess its meaning for both clinician and scientist. It also vividly portrays the experience of manic-depressive illness from the perspective of patients, their doctors, and researchers, and recounts the torments of some of the great poets and composers whose art was almost certainly enriched, energized, and deepened by the extremes of manic-depressive illness.
Drawing on the wisdom of classic psychiatric authors, the book encompasses knowledge about manic-depressive illness as Kraepelin originally defined it. Drs. Goodwin and Jamison's understanding of the illness, gained from their own extensive research and clinical experience, guided their interpretation of the literature. Like Kraepelin, they emphasize the cyclical course of manic-depressive illness and the essential unity of its bipolar and recurrent unipolar forms. Encyclopedic in scope, this volume exhaustively reviews the biological and genetic literature that has dominated the field in recent years. It also surveys the psychological and epidemiological evidence, as well as that pertaining to diagnostic issues, course, and outcome. The authors offer practical guidelines for differential diagnosis and clinical management. The medical treatment of manic and depressive episodes is described, strategies for preventing future episodes are given in detail, and psychotherapeutic issues common in this illness are considered. Special emphasis is given to fostering compliance with medication regimens and treating bipolar patients who abuse drugs and alcohol or who pose a risk of suicide. This book, the product of a decade of work, will be a valuable addition to the libraries of psychiatrists and other physicians, psychologists, clinical social workers, neuroscientists, pharmacologists, and the patients and families who live with manic-depressive illness..
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EMPOWER YOURSELF! Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient, a friend, or relative, this book offers help. The only volume to provide both the doctor's and patient's views, 100 Questions & Answers About Bipolar (Manic-Depressive) Disorder gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, coping strategies, sources of support, and much more. Written by a prominent psychiatrist, with actual patient commentary, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the medical, psychological, and emotional turmoil of this debilitating condition..
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Even though Jonathan Sheinberg possessed a larger-than-life personality, he battled dyslexia, addictions, and bipolarity for years. While a husband and a father of three children, Sheinberg suffered deep depression and chaos. He turned to drugs and gambling in order to cope with his constant uncertainty and inner numbness.

But with the proper diagnosis, Sheinberg was able to turn his life around. He discovered how to transform his hyperactivity into peace and his impulsivity and grandiosity into a healthy way of life. Hollywood Steps 101 explains Sheinberg’s journey and methods of dealing with his anxiety through concepts such as “the channel of discipline” and “staying in the present.”

Demystifying the process of addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) by delving into one person’s account of suffering and self-evaluation, Hollywood Steps 101 provides a fountain of knowledge on how to change and how to gather the courage to do so.

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Dark to Light explores one woman's journey through the darkness, madness, loneliness, and despair of manic-depression The book opens with poetry and prose that express the darker side of the illness It is in her darkness, however, that she learns she is not alone and that by sticking together with others caught in the same bondage as she, there is both Hope and Light to be found. Through her suffering she learns the importance of her God given life and so begins the rise out of her pit. Rising out of the Dark she walks boldly into the Light with a new perspective on Life and herself. She learns to focus on beauty as a weapon against the darkness. She finally comes to a place where she can find peace and gratitude to God. It is an amazing journey from the embrace of darkness into the warmth of the light..
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This work of poetry purposes to help those suffering from bi-polar disorder or any other mental illness and to raise the consciousness of others about this debilitating disease.

Enter the mind of a person with bi-polar disorder. Experience the struggle one endures with this illness through poetry. The reader may suffer from bi-polar disorder and not even know it. The purpose of this writing is to let the reader know that you are not alone and the feelings you are experiencing are not uncommon. Not only does the poetry go into the negative effects of bi-polar disorder but it also explores the hope that exists for improvement. The reader may see himself through the eyes of the author or he may know someone who suffers these feelings and experiences. The author strives to put the experience of being bi-polar into words to which the reader may relate.

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My doctor had called the hospital ahead of time so they expected me. I was put into a room where a crisis counselor spoke to me. I told him that I didn't feel anything. When he left, an ER Doctor came in to talk to me. I told him the same things I had told the counselor. I waited another half hour after the ER Doctor left then I told my sister that I wanted to leave. I didn't feel like hanging around the hospital anymore. She knew that I shouldn't leave in the condition I was in so she went to talk to the ER Doctor. The Doctor then handed me a piece of paper. I didn't even bother to read it. I didn't care what it said I just wanted to leave. I saw the crisis counselor in the hall so I asked him if I could go now. I showed him what the Doctor gave me and he sat me back down in the crisis room. I hadn't really noticed a security guard standing beside me. The counselor told me that the piece of paper meant that I surrendered my rights to leave and that I was going to be admitted. I just didn't care anymore. They put me in the room beside the security guards office so they could keep an eye on me. My sister had to leave to pick up my kids from school and then pick my husband up at the GO Station. She explained everything to them then had to take my husband to my Doctors office to pick up my car..
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Neil Walton

ISBN: 9781847471239
Published: 2007
Pages: 220
Key Themes: Bi-Polar

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This book is about a Bi Polar Author, this story is about a man struggle with drink and a number of family issues..
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I must admit to what is probably the biggest epiphany I have ever had in my entire lifetime. This is the hardest admission I have ever made in terms of myself, my illness, my current recovery and my genuine inner truths. Of all the hard work, the different therapies, out-patient programs, hospitalizations, as well one-on-one therapy, good diet and exercise and a working medication, all played a huge role in my current recovery, and I will not minimize their significance. However, they were not the things that ultimately lead to it. In the end, what ultimately got me better was my decision to own my illness; the acceptance and ownership of my illness played a crucial part in my over all current recovery. I learned to accept it, I learned to own it. Just as I had always thought and let myself believe that it owned me, I now believed that I owned it. Just as I had always chose to believe that it belonged to me, I now chose to believe that I belonged to it. I taught myself how to rid my mind of its terror and fear. I chose to be in control now, therefore, I was no longer afraid of its sinister potential to rob me of my life again. It was no longer the enemy. I was no longer just me, now I was me with my illness, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment-Resistant Depression, and I became one with it. Now we were a team working together to get through life, to embrace life. It was no longer me against my illness or my illness against me; instead it became me and my illness against the world. I was no longer shackled by its constant strife. And now, I could honestly say that it was this simple mind modification that made all the difference in the world in my ability to cope and live with “my” illness. It gave me the ability to live a functional, normal, successful, and gratifying life because I was no longer trying to get rid of it, but I began learning how to live with it. To all those who suffer from mental illness, through my long lived battles, through all of the trials and tribulations I experienced, through all of the suffering I endured and my learning experiences along the way, this is the one major piece of advice I can offer with sound mind and true solace. You have two choices. You can believe in your dreams to live a normal fulfilling life and make it your own, living side by side, hand in hand with your illness while making those dreams come true. Or, you can let your illness steal you away from the world and run away with you, keeping you detached and holding you captive in a room, in a bed, or in a prison of irrational, negative, hopeless thoughts and dreadful demise. And here, it will repeatedly try and lore you back to its destructive daggers if you choose not to recognize and accept it. If you get nothing else out of this entire book, learn to own and accept your illness, work with it, not against it, and your battles will dispel with much more simplicity than complexity. The difficulty will undoubtedly dissipate, the light will always be there, even if lurking behind the clouds on some inevitable yet unforgiving bad days, it will still be there. The undying pain will become less and less; the dark tunnels fewer and fewer until they are gone and life will become so worthwhile and so worth living once again! And this all happens when we truly believe that “the dreams that we dare to dream really do come true.”.
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