Juggling Your Bipolar Life: New, Successful Ways of Treating and Dealing With Bipolar Disorder - Softcover

Schloder, Christine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595377718 ISBN 13: 9780595377718

Publisher: iUniverse, 2006

Synopsis

Accepting that you have bipolar illness is the first step in getting well. The second is wanting help. Finally, you must be willing to make the changes required to better your life.If you suffer from bipolar disorder, only the most current information will help you effectively utilize treatment methods. Through Juggling Your Bipolar Life, you'll become familiar with a groundbreaking symptom-charting system developed by author and bipolar disorder sufferer Christine Schloder.Juggling Your Bipolar Life focuses on helping you better communicate your symptoms to your doctor to give him or her a clearer understanding of your needs. Learn to gain control of your ups and downs, thus making your manic and depressed episodes less frequent and severe.One can think of the essentials of living optimally with bipolar disorder as the "three rights": right diagnosis, right treatment, and right behavior or attitude. Finding the correct treatment, choosing the right thoughts, and having a positive attitude can make the biggest difference in your recovery. Let Juggling Your Bipolar Disorder give you the necessary tools to create a happier, healthier life!

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About the Author

Author Christine Schloder has been very successful in helping to change the lives of thousands of people with her unique programs. Her programs provide knowledge and empowerment to fellow consumers and providers. Christine published her book in February, 2006 titled Juggling your Bipolar Life Her book has sold more than 10,000 copies since its release and has been utilized to promote wellness and recovery to consumers and providers.In addition to being an author, Christine is also a motivational speaker, Certified Peer Support Specialist, a Juggler, Ventriloquist, Puppeteer and Self-Help Program Writer. Being diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder herself, she incorporates her years of experience and talents into her presentation. One is teaching that recovery is possible! Her story of recovery is an amazing one and it is a story that is still being written.Whether you are a provider, or a person with a diagnosis of mental illness, or a friend or family member, her book will have you thinking about all the positive possibilities that can help move recovery forward. She emphasizes that recovery is remembering who you are and using your strengths to become all you were meant to be. She utilizes everyday as an opportunity to make changes to better her life. Learn how Christine got her life back as she found ways to get some control back in her life. She will talk about the most current treatment methods to gain control of the ups and downs thus making the manic and depressed episode less frequent and severe. With this new information you can use this to help someone or a person could use it to take control of their lives & or illness. Christine will take a look at both sides of an illness from the provider side to the consumer side. How can you help someone stay on the road of recovery? She will talk about changes and choices, working together, eliminating stigma, and building a support system for all involved. Working as a team will help make the mental health system

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595377718
• ISBN 13: 9780595377718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112