Amazing Book! I Had Never Connected These Parts of Myself Before

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	• The Bipolar Handbook: Real-Life Questions with Up-to-Date Answers Wes Burgess Avery/Penguin, 2006 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 21 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This is truelly an incredible book

I have bipolar disorder, and also have a mother and sister with it. Educating myself on this illness has been very important to me. I have to say this book is absolutely the best in it's class.
I have read many books with the intention of educating on bipolar disorder, and they have been helpful in a generic sense, I now needed something more in depth. This was it! This book answers so many questions about living with the disorder, medications, diet and other complications that are common with this illness.
I keep referring back to it, it reminds me that I am not alone in this. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more.

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Bipolar Handbook

I bought this book shortly after receiving a diagnosis of bipolar. I found that after my diagnosis I was experiencing a lot of emotions in regards to my own misinformation about the disease.

Needless to say, the information in this book really and truly helped me to understand more about myself, and what I can expect and what I need to look for in the future.

It was very easy to navigate, and I felt more assured that this book was written by a psychiatrist who specializes in bipolar.

This is my first book on bipolar disorder, and I am sure it isn't my last, but I am very very glad that it was the first one I read.

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Amazing Book! I Had Never Connected These Parts of Myself Before

Although I have wondered if I was bipolar for many years now, I was only just diagnosed two days ago by my primary dr. (and referried to a psychologist). After I took the kids to school yesterday, I went out to the book store and looked up books on bipolar. The first one I picked that interested me, I took and sat down with. I kept reading it and reading it and finally decided I had to take it home with me.

It is question-and-answer format, so you really can just read a section at a time, rather than a "whole chapter". I won't say "everything" in this book is "me", but I can't tell you how it was to finally sit and read something that was talking about ME! Things that have been following me around since I was a teenager (now 34) and I never connected them together. Never was diagnosed! I was always told I was "normal", or depressed or anxious and put on meds for these. I KNEW something was not right with my behavior- cheap sex on the first date w/o protection, driving on a whim 10 hours to visit an online "friend", buying big items on a whim... and more than that, the RUSH that with it! Leaving jobs in the middle of the day to go "hide" just so nobody knew where to find me!

I could go on, but the point is that I had never connected all these things (and more) in my life before. I was always told I was lazy, to "get your life in order"... now I know why I talk a million miles and hour, switch topics 10 times and can't find my way back to waht I started to talk about- all within 30 second!

Its wonderful to finally at least have all these bits connected so that I might begin to learn how to cope with this. Having dysphoria as they call it,- detached from the world, floating, things seeming more colorful, seeing people in front of me who "suddenly disappear"- might seem fun, but really its not. Its like I am being made to do them. And then soon after, getting extremely depressed and planning ways to kill myself ... and worst of all, not being able to control any of these things- even when I know they are not "normal".

I tried writing Dr. Burgess to thank him at his website, but I could not find the address. So- thank you Dr. Burgess for this amazing book! I can finally get to working on not thinking I am a horrible person for continually failing at things I try to start up (school, jobs, projects, relationships) and to hopefully learn how to NOT think I can "do it all and more if only there were enough hours in the day".

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this book is required reading

I am a doctor with bipolar patients. One of my staff brought in this book last week and we have all read it. It looks like a popular health book but I have learned a number of new things from this book that will improve my patient care. Also, it is an enjoyable read and easy to follow. I have already made this book required reading for my staff, my patients and their families. It has my recommendation.

safe passage for those who suffer (or know ones who do)

I am a bi polar male who has read virtually all mass marketed books in the field. Having gained familiarity with the "competition", I can honestly say this is the finest book in the field.

In a series of beautifully organized chapters, Dr. Burgess covers everything from medications, diet, and dating life. The book is positively encyclopedic.

The book's strengths lie in the fact that Burgess doesn't spend so much time on anecdotal stories, as many of his competitors do, but rather, he organizes his material so as to invite you to actively particpate in your own treatment. And believe me, there can be no greater gift, coming from one who suffers, than to be made to feel, with this brilliant book's help, that one can be at the steering wheel for one's own treatment.

So, don't hesitate. If you are bi polar, know or love someone who is bi polar, to pick up this book. It has it all. It even turned me on to Samuel Coleridge!

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