BP For Dummies Contents
Contents at a Glance
Introduction
Part I: Boning Up on Bipolar Disorder
Chapter 1: Living La Vida Bipolar
Chapter 2: Demystifying Bipolar Disorder
Chapter 3: A Positive Prognosis with a Proactive Plan
Part II: Taming the Bipolar Beast
Chapter 4: Let’s Get Physical: Ruling Out Other Health Issues
Chapter 5: Getting a Psychiatric Evaluation and Treatment Plan
Chapter 6: Building a Winning Mood-Management Team
Part III: Opening the Treatment Toolbox: A Comprehensive, Integrated Approach
Chapter 7: Touring the Bipolar Pharmacy
Chapter 8: Retooling Your Mind through Therapy
Chapter 9: Expanding Your Treatment Options
Part IV: Helping Yourself
Chapter 10: Surviving Your Current Crisis
Chapter 11: Healing at Your Own Pace
Chapter 12: Identifying Your Triggers and Mapping Your Moods
Chapter 13: Restructuring Your Life
Chapter 14: Working Out and Eating Right
Chapter 15: Battling the Urge to Fly Solo
Part V: Assisting a Friend or Relative with Bipolar Disorder
Chapter 16: Supporting Your Loved One
Chapter 17: Planning Ahead for a Possible Crisis
Chapter 18: Backing Your Bipolar Child
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Chapter 19: Ten Questions to Ask a Psychiatrist or Therapist
Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Fight the High Cost of Treatment
Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Help the Bipolar Community
Appendix: A Glossary of Bipolar-Related Terms
Index
Pages & Stories
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- Affliction Ate Her
- Alexandra’s Bipolar Husband
- Almost a Relief
- Amanda Walton-Gaston
- Andrew
- Arthur
- Bipolar Boyfriend – Help!
- Bipolar Extramarital Affair
- Bipolaroni – Rita C.
- Bubba
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- Confused Husband
- Cyndi
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- Darryl
- Dave
- David from Manchester, England
- Debbie Bruce: Addiction or Bipolar I?
- Debra
- Design Girl
- Devoted to My Deprecation
- Donna’s Daughter
- Ellie
- From Withdrawal to Awakening: A Continuing Journey
- Georgia
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- Just Me
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- Larry Married to Bipolar
- Linda – Orthomolecular Cure?
- Linda M.
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- Michelle from Manchester, England
- MissUnderstood
- My Bipolar Mother
- Natalie D.
- Nicole
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- Patricia
- PeterBGood
- Raising Nathan
- Ryan M. Christman
- Shane
- Sherry’s Story – Bipolar Husband and Family
- Strength in Small Numbers
- Susan C
- Suzanne
- Take Action to Change Your Partner’s Reaction
- Terri Cheney
- The Bipolar Guy
- The Flick of the Switch
- The Unhealable Disease
- The Walking Cure
- Tila Totally Alone
- Tom Smith – Unconditional Love
- Trevor
- Victor Kennedy
- You’ll Never Work in This Town Again!
Blogroll
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- American Occupational Therapy Association
- American Psychiatric Association
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Bipolar By Chance
- Bipolar in America
- Bipolar-Lives
- bp Magazine
- BringChange2Mind
- Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation
- Children’s Defense Fund
- Counselling Resource
- Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
- Disability Blog
- Hiding Behind the Pulpit
- Hopeworks Community
- Joe Kraynak’s Blog
- KidConnect Social Skills Groups
- Madness and I: We’re quite good friends!
- Madness Letters
- Marya Hornbacher
- My Bipolar Blessing
- NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
- National Association of Disability Representatives
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives
- Psych Central
- Quackwatch
- Stanley Foundation Bipolar Network
- Terri Cheney
- Think:Kids
- Yitzhak Shnaps, M.D.
- Your Bipolar World