Author: Christina Solak-Goodwin
Publisher: Aberdeen Bay
ISBN: 9781608300495
Category : Manic-depressive persons
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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I was twenty-six years old and had just endured my second committed psychiatric hospitalization for suicidal depression when I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. At that time, I had no idea how sick I was-and would later become. Battling Bipolar Disorder, a Memoir chronologically reports the pain, despair and hopelessness of a woman suffering from mental illness for seventeen years. My first-person, present-tense story recounts 11 suicide attempts (that I can remember), multiple failed medication trials, electric shock treatments (a last resort that fails) and numerous psychiatric hospitalizations. Even though during many of these episodes I was-and still am-a licensed professional mental health therapist myself, I continue to deny my illness and often refuse treatment, which, of course, results in reckless behaviors. I continually ride a physical, mental and emotional roller coaster. Battling Bipolar Disorder, A Memoir is both graphic and seductive. Readers will be intrigued with the inner workings of mental institutions, suicidal plans and relationships between the bipolar patient and both her family and mental health doctors. These physicians fall into categories of the good, the bad and the ugly.
Author: TROY GILLEM
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475998694
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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Bipolar Battle Plan by Troy Gillem is a no-holds-barred view of bipolar disorder. Gillem offers riveting first-hand descriptions of his own episodes and those of people he interviewed. Gillem provides an aggressive action plan to manage ones symptoms and life in general, covering everything from creating a balanced medical protocol to selecting a compatible psychiatrist. This refreshing book is a boon to persons with bipolar disorder, professionals in the field, and interested friends and family members. -Ellen Bowers, Ph.D Victory means living a productive, happy life and making your dreams come true!
Author: Joan E. Childs
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN: 0757316972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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"Six million people in America suffer from bipolar disorder. Joan Child's daughter, Pamela, suffered from bipolar, bouncing from doctor to doctor in search of treatment. Yet the demons great louder, and on a summer day in July 1998, the same day that theOprah Winfrey showed aired a segment on Bipolar Disease, Joan Childs' 34-year-old-daughter leaped to her death from the window of her father's 15-story apartment. An Angel to Remember is her mother Joan's haunting story of grief and guilt, yet it is a beautiful story of love and the courage to find peace and purpose once again. With brutal honesty and vivid detail, Joan recalls how the entire family became entangled with Pam's illness as they watched her dive deeper into the darkness where no one could reach her. Ironically, Pam and Joan were both psychotherapists yet, with all their credentials and medical knowledge, Pam still could not be saved. An Angel to Remember masterfully looks back even as it looks forward. Written with vivid memories of Pamela's troubled yet loving life and the final days of her funeral and shiva (a 7-day mourning period in Judaism), the story will break your heart and then mend it again. "--
Author: Troy Steven
Publisher: Battle Press
ISBN: 1513650262
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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Breaking Bipolar is an empowering self-help book with clear, detailed instructions on how to create a powerful battle plan to BREAK the hold bipolar disorder has on your life, and eliminate bipolar episodes for good. Breaking Bipolar will provide you the battle plan, weapons, and training, to successfully battle bipolar disorder and live a long and satisfying life. In this ground-breaking book, Troy Steven combines the knowledge he has gained battling bipolar disorder for over 20 years, hi engineering expertise developing plans and procedures, and the wisdom of five bipolar individuals he interviewed, to equip bipolar individuals with the knowledge and skills needed to win the war against bipolar disorder. After reading Breaking Bipolar your will you will have the training and skills to: • Create Your persona bipolar battle plan • Dial In your Medications to the Optimal Medication Cocktail • Eliminate bipolar episodes • Optimize your medications • Recognize symptoms of mania and depression • Find a psychiatrist you trust • Form a support team • Determine your Specific Diagnosis: Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Bipolar III, Bipolar IV, or Bipolar V. • Boost your mental and physical health • Recover faster from a bipolar episode • Deploy your bipolar legal rights if necessary • Navigate psychiatric hospitals • Win the war against bipolar disorder • Make Your Dreams Come True! Living with Bipolar Disorder is truly a war - in fact it can be a matter of LIFE and DEATH. Statistics show that approximately 25% of people with bipolar disorder attempt suicide, and one out of five of these attempts succeed. This is the highest suicide rate of any mental illness. How do we battle a mental illness that has the ability to take control of our thoughts and emotions and cause our minds to deceive and betray us? How do we overcome an illness that has the power to cause us to attempt suicide, become violent, and spend money recklessly, not to mention act in so many other destructive ways? How do we surmount the health issues attributed to bipolar disorder such as a shorter life span, obesity, diabetes, and abuse of drugs and alcohol? The best solution is to follow a lifelong whole-life wellness plan that is based upon the expert recommendations of the medical community. Breaking Bipolar will give you that plan. Bear in mind that you are the General of your own individual bipolar battle plan. You must become expert at treating your own disease. Live by the motto, Bipolar Heal Thyself. The book you are holding in your hands promises one thing: to provide you the weapons and training to fight bipolar illness strategically, intelligently, and as a warrior. Equipped with a battle plan to combat bipolar disorder you will be well-armed to achieve victory. This is your life – you don’t get another!
Author: Mahala Busselle Bishop
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440137404
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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"Mahala became a victim of bipolar disorder in her fifties and uses her life experience, her writing ability and multitudes of notes from manic episodes to create this informational book."--Page 4 of cover
Author: Michael W. Otto
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199843783
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Living with Bipolar Disorder is designed to help patients and their families develop the skills they need to be good consumers of treatment and to become expert partners in the management of this challenging disorder. Drawing on research documenting the strength of combining drug treatments with behavioral interventions for fighting bipolar disorder, the authors of this book take a skill-based, family-and-friends approach to managing the ups and downs commonly experienced with bipolar disorder. Readers will learn how to better recognize mood shifts before they happen, minimize their impact, and move on with their lives. Family members will learn how to recognize potential problems, provide encouragement, practice new coping skills, and understand what a loved one is going through. Living with Bipolar Disorder provides worksheets and forms to help readers reinforce skills and practices learned in therapy, as well as useful information about the details of living with bipolar disorder, advice on the best ways to avoid relapses, and strategies for anticipating problems. In this new edition, the authors have expanded the text to reflect the newest advances in research on the management of bipolar disorder, adding the latest in drug information, advice on selecting a therapist, a discussion of the challenges of transitioning from adolescence to adulthood with bipolar, managing stress, improving relationship and communication skills both with the family and with one's clinician, and more. Living with Bipolar Disorder offers a wealth of effective strategies to reduce the likelihood of episodes of depression or mania and maximize the enjoyment of life.
Author: Romain U. DuFour III
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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Coping Successfully with Bipolar is a book of encouragement and firsthand knowledge of how to cope and become successful in the bipolar battle over one's mind. In this book, there are keys to coping with this psychological battle. Coping Successfully with Bipolar is told from the perspective of an individual who has coped successfully with this mental battle for over thirty years. This book is the continuation and sequence of Overcoming Bipolar Disorder: Defying the Odds.
Author: Bob Olson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781886284319
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Based on the author's personal recovery experience, this book reveals a three-step formula for beating depression and bipolar disorder (manic-depression).
Author: John Poehler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781087857381
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Without proper treatment, bipolar disorder is a debilitating mental illness that wreaks havoc on everything it touches. Chaos and unpredictability are words that precisely describe bipolar disorder. This War Within My Mind is a game plan that will change the way you view bipolar disorder. It starts with simply changing the way you see yourself. You are a warrior. A bipolar warrior. It is within you to take back control of your life and your illness. As a warrior, it is imperative that you train both your mind and body. If you want to manage your bipolar disorder, you need to fight it on a daily basis with the right tools and support. John Poehler is an expert in managing his own personal bipolar disorder. He hopes his ideas, suggestions, and thoughts will offer you guidance and support. Stop merely surviving and start thriving along your own journey.
Author: Salvina Cappello
Publisher:
ISBN: 1425704719
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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This is a true story of a woman who was successful in one side of the television business and also struggled for her life while battling bipolar illness. She did not respond to conventional treatment for the illness, which led her to the best medical care the world could offer, the research specialists. She was one of the first to respond to Depakote a drug, which is now commonly used to treat the illness. Her personal struggle takes us in the NIH- the world's best research hospital. Ten years in remission .she encounters a problem with disrupted sleep and has a manic episode while overseas. In the battle to regain stability she almost died twice and was comatose once. She is now emerging refreshed and re-stablized into another take on life and learning how to catch mania early a victory! This is a heartwarming story line with bipolar as the protagonist. She is ready to advocate for the persons with mental illnesses the most downtrodden of all.
