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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN num: 9780855723576
ISBN number: 0855723572
Label: Michelle Anderson Publishing
Manufacturer: Michelle Anderson Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 156
Printing Date: December 21, 2005
Publishing house: Michelle Anderson Publishing
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Contributors to this book discuss many different ways they stay well with manic depression. The author has put together common strategies to stay well. With insight, education, experience and time, people with manic depression learn what works for them and what does not work.
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This book should be prescribed along with one's very first psych med prescription for bipolar (I, II, III, or IV). Although I have editing recommendations, it is concise and contains insights from those who have been successfully managing bipolar for years whose experiences are not found in conventional medical literature.
Full remission is possible, and this book gives the reader an idea how to achieve that. Generally, discipline and maturity don't hurt, nor does the willingness to experiment with complementary remedies and different medications and doses.
This book emphasizes that staying well means being able to recognize symptoms early and take care of them, before they are the symptoms quoted in conventional medical literature such as sleeplessness. In other words, if you're having fitful sleep, don't wait to address it until you haven't slept for three nights straight.
I have three editorial recommendations. First, I would organize the book into chapters that correspond with the staying well categories listed in the last chapter (acceptance, lifestyle, triggers, etc.). Second, I would break up the patient accounts by these topics and quote patients topically, not in essay form. I'd rather hear a little from Georgia on lifestyle and then again on sleep rather than Georgia's entire history all at once. Third, I would include research on massage, meditation, etc. that goes along with the patient accounts and explains why these remedies help manage and prevent bipolar symptoms.
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This book chronicles the "successful" lives of several people who have BPII. I guess I was supposed to be inspired, but these people made life major changes (which takes lots of courage) to manage their disease; moved from the city to the country, changed jobs, other lifestyle changes. Quite frankly, I like my life the way it is, so instead of being inspired, it made me sad. However, my BPII is pretty mild. If you have a more severe case, your life is out of control, and you would do anything to feel normal, this book will probably help.
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