We Give Hope
$15.00
(The New Harbinger Loving Someone Series)
Maintaining a relationship is hard enough without the added challenges of your partner’s bipolar disorder symptoms. Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder offers information and step-by-step advice for helping your partner manage mood swings and impulsive actions, allowing you to finally focus on enjoying your relationship while also taking time for yourself. This book explains the symptoms of your partner’s disorder and offers strategies for preventing them and responding to these symptoms when they do occur.
Improve your relationship by learning how to:
This updated edition includes a new section about the medications your partner may be taking so that you can understand the side effects and help monitor his or her bipolar treatment. As a supportive partner, you deserve support yourself. This book will help you create a more balanced, fulfilling relationship.
| Weight | 12 oz |
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| Dimensions | 5.8 × 0.5 × 8.8 in |
JULIE A. FAST is a critically acclaimed international author, speaker, and sought after expert in the mental health field. She is regarded as a mental health pioneer for her groundbreaking, comprehensive approach to treating bipolar disorder and depression using both mainstream and self created management strategies.
Her books include:
– Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner
– Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder: A Four Step Plan for You and Your Loved Ones to Manage the Illness and Create Lasting Stability
– Get it Done When You’re Depressed: 50 Strategies for Keeping Your Life on Track
and Bipolar Happens! on Kindle.
– The Health Cards Treatment System for Bipolar Disorder (www.BipolarHappens.com)
Julie was the original consultant for Claire Danes and her TV series Homeland on Showtime.
Her upcoming book Hortensia and the Magical Brain: Poems for Kids with Bipolar, Anxiety, Psychosis and Depression will be released in 2018.
Julie is a family and partner coach for those who love someone with bipolar disorder or other mental health concerns (www.JulieFast.com), writes a column for BP Magazine (www.BPHope.com), blogs for Psychology Today and Huffington Post is a bipolar disorder specialist on the Oprah and Dr. Oz website (www.ShareCare.com) and has a popular blog and awesome newsletter at (www.BipolarHappens.com/bhBlog).
Julie also trains pharmacists, psychiatric residents, social workers, alternative health care practitioners, general physicians, nurse practitioners, therapists and many more health care professionals on the topics of depression and bipolar disorder management.
Julie speaks regularly on the topic of cannabis and how it interacts with bipolar disorder.
You can find her on FaceBook at the Julie A. Fast and Julie A. Fast Books pages and Twitter @JulieBipolar. She also has many popular You Tube videos on mental health topics including her recent event at Oxford University.
Julie’s books have sold over 400,000 copies.
Julie’s Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis
Julie was diagnosed with rapid cycling bipolar disorder II in 1995 at the age of thirty-one, after she had unknowingly lived with the disorder for over fourteen challenging and chaotic years. In 1998, three years after the diagnosis and twenty-three medications later, she found herself at a life-or-death crossroads: The medications were not enough and the quality of her life had spiraled downward with unhealthy relationships, work problems, weight gain, a loss of dreams and money issues as a result. This experience became the inspiration behind the treatment plan found in all of her books.
If diagnosed today, Julie would receive a schizoaffective disorder diagnosis. Her psychosis was missed for many years!
A note from Julie:
Do you care about someone with a mental health disorder?
Do you have mental health disorder symptoms?
I want to let you know it’s going to be ok.
I live with my symptoms daily. The anxiety is rough. The mania is enticing. The depression is dangerous. But I survive and you can too. I want to encourage you to keep going until you find your path. There is hope.
“Resources for individuals with bipolar disorder are few and far between, but those for the people who care for them are even scarcer. Julie A. Fast and John D. Preston have put together a valuable resource for families and caregivers of people with bipolar disorder. Taking a holistic perspective, these authors offer advice that will help readers help their loved ones with bipolar disorder. More importantly, this book encourages and helps readers to take good care of themselves and their relationships.”
—Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW, psychotherapist and author of The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder, The Bipolar Workbook for Teens, and other books
“I am truly impressed with this wonderful book. I will have it in my office and recommend it to patients’ partners as a matter of course as they go through the journey with this illness.”
—Steven Juergens, MD
“More than an education about bipolar disorder, this is a welcome to the journey, in the kindest language you will find in any such book. Open to any page and you will notice the tone and wisdom of people who’ve obviously been there. It’s a challenge to maintain a relationship with someone who has this illness. You’d do well to have a guide, and you will not find any better than Julie A. Fast and John D. Preston. Nor will you find any clearer advice than that which the authors have laid out. Their book is remarkably emotionally intelligent and a privilege to read.”
—James Phelps, MD, mood disorders specialist at Samaritan Mental Health in Corvallis, OR, and author of Why Am I Still Depressed?
“This book will help the loved ones of people living with bipolar disorder to better understand its challenges. It provides clear, concrete ways of giving the support needed to keep their loved ones healthy and get them through the rough spots.”
—Ruth White, PhD, MPH, MSW, associate professor of social work at Seattle University and author of Bipolar 101
“Julie A. Fast and John D. Preston have put together an impressive second-edition guide for couples struggling with the reality of bipolar disorder. They strive to decouple the diagnosis from the individual living with it. This premise lays the groundwork for their discussion of compassionate, non-blaming communication combined with effective couples-based solutions for those striving to work through the interpersonal complexities of a relationship impacted by bipolar disorder. Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder really is a must-read for anyone who does.”
—Russ Federman, PhD, ABPP, director of counseling and psychological services at the University of Virginia and author of Facing Bipolar
