Description
Bipolar Disorder is a family illness – a thief of family serenity and peace of mind, a destroyer of emotional balance for everyone who comes into contact with it, and the catalyst of a lifestyle that frequently produces dire consequences at home, in the workplace and in society as a whole. Bipolar relationships are not easy and more often than not, by the time a correct diagnosis is made, the stress of months and years of chaos has left you scarred and exhausted.
This wonderful new book is designed specifically for the families and friends of bipolar sufferers. It looks directly –and lovingly- at the many ways in which the non-bipolar can be the catalyst for stability rather that being the ‘trigger” for emotional breakdown. With extraordinary sensitivity, it reveals how Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), a new standard of treatment, combines for components—mindfulness, interpersonal relationship skills, emotional regulation, and distress tolerance—to dramatically improve the life of the bipolar loved one as well as those of family members and friends, DBT has been adopted very successfully as the key component and model for the Meehl House residential treatment program. Most importantly it is about having strong fulfilling and loving relationships.
Mark and Debra provide you with successful, results oriented tools you need not only for surviving in a bipolar relationship but actually thriving. Using lessons learned their own bipolar marriage and in their extensive research and studies with The Meehl Foundation, they provide real answers and solutions that are proven to work, not only for them, but for the many people who are using these tools in their own relationships.
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