BIPOLAR POCKET GUIDE

Bipolar doesn't only affect your mood. It can affect your sleep, relationships, work, routines, decisions, finances, treatment, and everyday life. So why should a bipolar guide stop at explaining symptoms?

Bipolar Pocket Guide is a practical, interactive wellness guide written by a counselor with lived experience. It helps you move from simply learning about bipolar disorder to creating a plan for managing it in real life.

What do you do when your mood starts changing? Who do you call? What should you tell your provider? What if depression makes showering, cooking, working, or getting out of bed difficult? What happens when outpatient treatment is no longer enough?

This guide helps you prepare before you need the answers.

Build coping skills using CBT and DBT strategies, identify warning signs, organize medications and appointments, and create personalized safety and relapse-prevention plans. Understand different levels of care, including Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP), Partial Hospitalization Programs (PHP), emergency care, and inpatient treatment.

Go beyond symptoms with practical guidance on ADLs, relationships, lifestyle stability, work accommodations, FMLA, short-term disability, SSDI, SSI, vocational rehabilitation, housing, food assistance, transportation, finances, faith, privacy, and disclosure.

Dedicated sections also help you talk with children, partners, family, friends, and employers-and give friends and loved ones information they can read to better understand how to support you.

Don't just read about managing bipolar. Build your plan for living with it. Bring this guide to treatment, write in it, share it with your support system, and keep it close when you need to know what comes next.