If you or a loved one suffer with Bipolar Disorder, you’re holding the keys to hope!
This book offers five gifts to help achieve recovery: • Practical tools for recovery including worksheets that help you go beyond mere survival to wellness—even happiness. • Comprehensive and understandable explanations of how to turn Bipolar Illness into Bipolar Wellness. • A promising nutritional approach that’s being tested at advanced psychiatric facilities. • The author’s personal story of being stuck in a dark pit, finding his way out, and creating this book as a roadmap for you. • Most of all, a new mindset to help you find a happy, steady reality in the Mid-Polar Zone between mania and depression, with clear tools on how to get back there whenever your pendulum is swinging wildly.
“Michael Rose has written a very compelling and timely book entitled Bipolar Wellness. There are virtually no books that include an organized system for lifelong recovery for someone suffering from bipolar illness. Michael Rose has done just that. Bipolar Wellness is a book written from the ground up by one who suffered many years with the problems of bipolar illness. In this book, Michael Rose is reaching out to those who actually suffer with bipolar illness rather than ‘the choir’ of professionals. This book is also forward-looking because it focuses on wellness rather than illness. It is free of ‘woe is me, ’ resentments, and blame toward those who have sought to help him. This is a bottom-up processing that seeks counsel from professionals but realizes that wellness can only be achieved from within.”
Phillip Springer, MD, Psychiatrist, author of The Power of the Double Circle, A Guide to the Supportive Person Group Process
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface……………………………………………………………………………………………….1
Questionnaire …………………………………………………………………………………….7
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: My Story: From Bipolar Illness to Bipolar Wellness…………15
CHAPTER 2: What Bipolar Illness Looks Like and How to Turn It into Bipolar Wellness……………………………………………23
STAGE ONE: THE BODY-MIND CONNECTION
CHAPTER 3: Tolerate Your Medications…………………………………………..39
CHAPTER 4: The Nutritional Breakthrough on the Horizon……………47
CHAPTER 5: Grow The Mid-Polar Zone With Aerobic Exercise……………81
CHAPTER 6: Eat Well, Drink Well…………………………………………………..87
CHAPTER 7: Build Your Self-Esteem by Giving Up the Labels……………..91
CHAPTER 8: Giving Up on Mania as the Ideal State and Getting Past the Fear of Depression……………………………….95
CHAPTER 9: “They” Are Not The Problem……………………………………..107
STAGE TWO: RECOVERY – AN INSIDE JOB
CHAPTER 10: Therapy: Accepting the Support You Need………………….115
CHAPTER 11: Addictions……………………………………………………………..121
CHAPTER 12: Suicide: the Preventable Option……………………………….129
CHAPTER 13: Disorganization………………………………………………………145
STAGE THREE: CONNECTING THE DOTS WITH SUPPORT NETWORKS
CHAPTER 14: The Best Support is from Other People Struggling with Similar Problems…………………………………………….155
CHAPTER 15: Accommodation and Handicapping………………………….163
CHAPTER 16: The Issue of Disclosure: Sharing Your Truth with Friends and Others…or Not………………………………………………173
CHAPTER 17: Preserve Your Family and Friends by Learning Communication Skills……………………………….179
STAGE FOUR: BRINGING YOUR RECOVERY INTO THE WORLD: BECOMING PROACTIVE
CHAPTER 18: Expanding the Mid-Polar Zone Through Creativity, Fun, and Spirituality……………………………………………….187
CHAPTER 19: Advocacy: Sometimes They are the Problem………………..195
CHAPTER 20: Volunteering: Find Meaning by Helping Others………….217
BIPOLAR BASICS: INFORMATION SUPPLEMENTS
SUPPLEMENT I: Bipolar Basic Information – the Facts as We Know Them……….227
SUPPLEMENT II: Bipolar Disorder in Children and Teens…………………..253
SUPPLEMENT III: Accommodations for Students Academic Accommodations for Students With Psychiatric Disabilities…………………………………………….261
SUPPLEMENT IV: Accommodations in the Workplace…………………………275
SUPPLEMENT V: Americans with Disabilities Act and Mental Illness……281
SUPPLEMENT VI: National Center for Complementary and Alterative Medicine……………………………………………….287
Despre autor
Before accepting his bipolar illness, MICHAEL ROSE, M.A led an over-adventurous life as a New-Age jazz flautist producing four albums, a children’s songwriter, a cook on an ocean-going tugboat, and a college ceramics instructor. After accepting and treating his illness, he became a master’s-level teaching psychologist and a board member/administrator at a peer-staffed psychiatric recovery and support facility. Using nutrition in his own recovery and in treating others, he became licensed in Florida as a Nutrition Counselor. Happily married, he develops products in the health food industry and is a professional life coach specializing in bipolar recovery. He hopes that this, his second book, will have a powerful impact on the treatment of bipolar disorder.
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