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 enlarge | Author: John Mcmanamy
Publisher: Collins Living
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 31962
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0060897422
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.895
EAN: 9780060897420
ASIN: 0060897422
Publication Date: October 1, 2006
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 Best book ever! December 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow! I've read all the books on this subject, and this is the best. John, bipolar himself, goes outside of the mere lists of symptoms and speaks to patients and those who deal with them--friends, families, providers. He includes comments from the many readers of his blog and newletter. He covers the science and meds issues in understandable ways but also gives the skinny on all the other things we need--talking therapies, thinking therapies, support groups, nutrition, spiritual practice, hope, and healing. Healing? Yes! We can reclaim our lives. We will not be "cured", but we can climb out of our black holes and live richly.
Guide to living with BP December 6, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A very well written book full of information and advice on hope to cope with having bipolar disorder in everyday life.
What makes this book fantastic... August 18, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
...is that instead of accommodating you to your illness, it hands you tools and a mission: REMISSION IS THE GOAL. Where other books hold your hand and tell you to use your tools, this one evaluates each tool so that you can use your intelligence and experience to choose what to use. After I read this book I saw pharmacalogical psychiatry in a whole new way: instead of drifting from drug to drug, I am deploying the ones that work best for me. I decide what side effects are OK. I decide whether to try a new drug. The doctor's opinion plays an important role, but I get better results when I carefully and conscientiously follow my instincts.
This book is filled with things I might deploy, from lifestyle and diet tinkering to medicine. And the goal of all this is to drive my illness into full and complete remission. After reading this book I am doing better than I have in a long time.
Don't miss the advice about taking your mood temperature frequently, as opposed to waiting for the symptoms to begin. Intercepting changing moods before they gain momentum is extremely important.
Take a giant step ahead from the patronizing how-to books out there and the currently fashionable medicines, and understand what's new and what's happening in depression and bipolar. Some readers will find a few chapters heavy with science, and decide to skip to the main points, but those who want to know how this disease is being fought and conquered will find it far ahead of other volumes. Oh, I'm sure there are some other good books on bipolar out there, but if you're ready to change your entire perspective on your illness for the better, give this one a try. It may not change your life as dramatically and rapidly as it did mine, but I defy anyone with bipolar illness to argue that this book isn't full of the most potent information available between two covers.
For those who are also ill, my best wishes for your recovery, and remember, THINK REMISSION, not treatment of symptoms.
From One who Lives this Every Day August 14, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
It took many years and many medications for depression before my doctor finally diagnosed me with Bipolar Disorder. The first book I bought and read was John Mcmanamy's "Living Well with Depression and Bipolar Disorder - "
I couldn't put it down as so many pages were "me". My husband read it with much interest, and said it helped him to understand events of the past and how we might both deal with this problem together in the future.
I highly recommend this book.
Holistically Awesome! July 21, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Before reading this book, I had alredy read at least 5-7 books on the topic. This book is the most holistic book I have ever read on the topic. It covers everything, and it is written in a very down-to-earth manner. It is a book with ideas and concepts that almost anybody with bipolar II can relate too. I have almost 20 books on this subject, and this is MY NUMBER 1!!! It is not only beneficial to the person suffering from this illness, but amazingly wholesome and complete for anybody wanting to understand more about this illness in a loved one.
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