Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder
Understanding and Helping Your Partner

This book really helped to explain the disease and the effects it has on the whole family. It lets you know that it is a family problem and invites your partner to get involved in a healthier way.

This is the #1 book I tell people to read about BP. It's the only book I know of that isn't targetted specifically at person experiencing BP or a parent of someone experiencing BP. If you experience BP, giving this book to someone who loves you wll do more than reading any book on handling BP yoursel......more

I read this in one night. The first time I've been able to focus long enough to read a book in one day since the last Tom Clancy novel. Having recently been diagnosed with bipolar 2, I did find this book helpful in understanding quite a number of things that before now had gone unrecognized as sympt......more

I really struggled with this book. On the one hand, there were many helpful suggestions, such as creating symptom lists for various moods and mood episodes, which included thoughts, emotions, behaviors, etc. In that way, it was really pragmatic and encouraged uniting the person with bipolar disorder......more

This book was a game changer for how my partner and I viewed the illness. Not only did it give us many tactics to use in overcoming the hardships of bipolar disorder, it gave us hope that there can be a life together beyond it.......more

Necessary first hand perspective that offered great reminders, deeper insight, and action driven resources for lifelong use. I listened to the audiobook, but I plan to order the physical copy to reread and annotate. Definitely some good exercises and knowledge nuggets throughout.......more