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# Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner (The New Harbinger Loving Someone Series)

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desertcart.com: Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner (The New Harbinger Loving Someone Series): 9781608822195: Julie A. Fast, John D. Preston: Books

Review: Good book for starters! - If you have someone in the family with mental illness or maybe you want your spouse to learn more about your condition then this is a great book to invest in. But, honestly the only way you’re going to learn to live with it is trail and error. No book is going to give you the answers. Be consistent with medications, treatment and coping skills and if therapy works for you then all the more power to you. This book of helpful and a nice gift but, the only way to get stable and move on forward, keep taking care of yourself and learn from your own life experience. Don’t let it define you. The book is fine for more information though! Especially if your new to the mental heath world.
Review: A lifesaver - My husband was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder and this is by far the best book for spouses/significant others that I have read. It's good to read a few books for the person with bipolar disorder (I highly recommend Welcome to the Jungle) but this book gets me. It has been an emotional experience reading this book as I recognized how many of the symptoms and behaviors my husband was showing and even the ones I was experiencing. I had to put it down a few times because it was all too much. That being said, I appreciate the breadth and depth of knowledge in this book. Detailed plans for working with your partner to come up with a strategy to stay well and sample scripts for everything including how to deal with unsupportive family and friends (which thankfully we don't have). And always the reminder that I have to take care of myself first and that deciding to leave is okay. Honestly that was reassuring: hearing that yes this is a terrible situation and leaving because a partner with bipolar disorder is unwilling to get help is okay. That's why I have the courage to stick it out for a while (but not indefinitely). I have yet to sit down with my husband to work on the exercises in this book but as this book was just recommended by his bipolar outpatient program I'm hopeful that he'll read it and then we can get started. I found doing some of the exercises on my own was really helpful in sorting out some of my emotions and I did try a few of the techniques in communicating with my husband. Tl;Dr: if you only read one book on bipolar disorder as family or friend of someone with bipolar disorder, make it this one. And then follow up with Welcome to the Jungle because it will make you laugh which you desperately need.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #53,706 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #7 in Coping with Bipolar Disorder #20 in Mood Disorders (Books) #31 in Depression (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,737) |
| Dimensions  | 5.75 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches |
| Edition  | Second |
| ISBN-10  | 1608822192 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1608822195 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Part of series  | The New Harbinger Loving Someone |
| Print length  | 256 pages |
| Publication date  | January 2, 2012 |
| Publisher  | New Harbinger Publications |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good book for starters!
*by M***E on July 27, 2025*

If you have someone in the family with mental illness or maybe you want your spouse to learn more about your condition then this is a great book to invest in. But, honestly the only way you’re going to learn to live with it is trail and error. No book is going to give you the answers. Be consistent with medications, treatment and coping skills and if therapy works for you then all the more power to you. This book of helpful and a nice gift but, the only way to get stable and move on forward, keep taking care of yourself and learn from your own life experience. Don’t let it define you. The book is fine for more information though! Especially if your new to the mental heath world.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A lifesaver
*by L***N on May 5, 2016*

My husband was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder and this is by far the best book for spouses/significant others that I have read. It's good to read a few books for the person with bipolar disorder (I highly recommend Welcome to the Jungle) but this book gets me. It has been an emotional experience reading this book as I recognized how many of the symptoms and behaviors my husband was showing and even the ones I was experiencing. I had to put it down a few times because it was all too much. That being said, I appreciate the breadth and depth of knowledge in this book. Detailed plans for working with your partner to come up with a strategy to stay well and sample scripts for everything including how to deal with unsupportive family and friends (which thankfully we don't have). And always the reminder that I have to take care of myself first and that deciding to leave is okay. Honestly that was reassuring: hearing that yes this is a terrible situation and leaving because a partner with bipolar disorder is unwilling to get help is okay. That's why I have the courage to stick it out for a while (but not indefinitely). I have yet to sit down with my husband to work on the exercises in this book but as this book was just recommended by his bipolar outpatient program I'm hopeful that he'll read it and then we can get started. I found doing some of the exercises on my own was really helpful in sorting out some of my emotions and I did try a few of the techniques in communicating with my husband. Tl;Dr: if you only read one book on bipolar disorder as family or friend of someone with bipolar disorder, make it this one. And then follow up with Welcome to the Jungle because it will make you laugh which you desperately need.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Book
*by A***R on August 26, 2025*

Love this book, very helpful!

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