Overcoming Bipolar Disorder: A Comprehensive Workbook for Managing Your Symptoms & Achieving Your Life Goals For individuals who have bipolar disorder, this Workbook contains self-management strategies to assist in the discovery and management of symptoms and afford the opportunity to live a more satisfying life with this condition. By recognizing the person with bipolar disorder as the expert in their specific experience with mood swings, Workbook exercises emphasize the skills to become an active partner in his or her own care and work collaboratively with professional care providers. For further information and to order a copy of the Workbook, please go to www.newharbinger.com.

The practical step-by-step approach allows individuals to develop personalized knowledge of their own life goals, symptom triggers and coping responses and to create summary profiles and action plans. Mania, depression, anxiety, binge eating, substance use, and suicide concerns are addressed from a biological, psychological, and psychosocial perspective. To best manage overall wellness, this Workbook also contains practical approaches to caring for physical health by focusing on positive lifestyle changes in terms of diet, exercise, sleep and tobacco use.

"The authors have done an outstanding job in producing a text that will help individuals and families dealing with bipolar disorder."
Martha Sajatovic, MD, professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University

"This book provides a marvelous compendium of approaches to managing life with bipolar disorder."
Lori Altshuler, MD, professor in mood disorders research at the University of California