Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner (The New Harbinger Loving Someone Series) Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Julie A. Fast Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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"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
"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
"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
About the Author
Julie A. Fast, freelance writer and Web master of www.juliefast.com, lives in the Pacific Northwest. She believes that with the right tools, bipolar disorder is a predictable and treatable illness.
John D. Preston, PsyD, ABPP
is professor emeritus at Alliant International University in Sacramento, CA, and has also served on the faculty of the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine and the Professional School of Psychology, San Francisco. He has authored twenty books in the areas of psychotherapy, neurobiology, and psychopharmacology, and coauthored Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple and Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists. Preston is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and has lectured internationally.
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- Series: The New Harbinger Loving Someone Series
- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; Second Edition edition (January 2, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1608822192
- ISBN-13: 978-1608822195
- Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
When I originally got this book, I started reading from the beginning like any other book. I wasn't too far in before I had to set it aside. It didn't seem to apply. The descriptions and wording came off like one woke up one day and their counterpart was suddenly acting out of character, which was certainly not the case for me. I'd spent nearly two decades with this individual, and the way they were acting when diagnosed was typical behavior for them all along. It wasn't watching them become someone I didn't recognize, as the beginning of the book describes, because it was who I came to know them as in the first place. So, I set it aside for a few months.
I picked it back up again once I'd had some much time outside of the situation to regain some objectivity, and also after noticing that one of the reviews for it had disappeared. That review resonated very well in general with how I felt about this title, and I'm sorry to see that it's gone. With that in mind, I will try to cover some of the same info that it contained.
There is a fairly clear message presented in the pages this book: This can work, but it's not a sure thing, and it's not going to happen overnight. For this to work, you have to be willing to sacrifice of your hopes, dreams, future, lifestyle, etc. You need to be willing put in a good deal of effort for a goal that you may never reach. Results will take time, perhaps a lot of time. There is no cure for bipolar, so you and your partner are in for a lifetime of struggling to manage it. You have to be able to forgive AND *forget* all of your partner's past behavior, as if it never happened, as well as their future behavior. If you're not able to do all of that, or have reservations, then you have some serious questions to answer for yourself.
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