Bipolar In Your House ... Here's Some Help

[Mama3A]

Some of these may apply to you: ( I hope it helps) Add your links in a reply!

The Other Half-Spouses of Bipolar Suffers

http://pages.zdnet.com/tatty/mymentaltrampoline/id26.html

Bipolar Significant Others/Family and Caregivers-A web page of resources

http://www.bpso.org/showinfo.php?topic=family.shtml

short true stories worth reading-separation-

http://www.bpso.org/separation.htm  

The SO experience:  What the SO has to decide is whether the current price

being paid is worth the long term investment. It takes a lot of courage, love,

and strength to stay but it takes a lot of honesty, courage, love, and strength

to let go. Everyone has their own threshold and whether that is days, weeks,

months, years, or decades, one is no better than the other. 

http://www.bpso.org/soexper.htm

The Other side- Life with Bipolar Disorder gives the loved ones of BP's a

chance to see what it is like to have this illness, and to understand better

what they go through and how you can help them.

http://users.ev1.net/%7Eferalkat/Otherside.html

Beacon of Hope-Support Resources for Significant Others

http://lightship.org/resource.htm#online

NewYork City Voices - Must See online magizine

http://www.newyorkcityvoices.org/

Rethinkcarers.org  http://www.rethinkcarers.org/

Reliable information using the experiences of the tens of thousands of carers. 
News and Events, Helpful Hints on how to cope and thrive as carers,

Your Experiences - read and add stories, Discussion Forums, Information &

Resources section downloadable, print-out or buy online mental illness publications & 

Links page to important government information various websites. 

- My Own True Story- married to a Bipolar/personal website

http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/6611/BIO.html

The Yellow Brick Road -wonderful insightful site

be sure to read -How My Family Deals and Feels about my BP

and read-Personal accounts with Bipolar

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/4296/index.html

THE BINDS THAT TIE-AND HEAL: HOW FAMILIES COPE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1175/2_34/71189923/print.jhtml

I was married to Jekyll and Hyde -article

http://www.medhelp.org/perl6/mentalhealth/messages/32083a.html

Of Rats and Relationships: Why Good people stay in bad relationships article http://www.geocities.com/athens/parthenon/1518/rats.html

Individuality and Love -a must read article-

http://www.goodknights.org/projects/phoenix/project.asp

Conscious Loving

http://www.consciousloving.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl

Achieving Emotional Health and Personal Growth

http://www.primechoice.com/philosophy/shelp/

Loving and Nurturing Yourself and Others 
http://www.lifechallenges.org/create/lovnurt.html 

Creative Ways to Transform Challenges

http://www.lifechallenges.org/create/creative.html 

Be your own therapist-an online do it yourself book-

http://www.psychologyhelp.com/book.htm

Coping.org   Wonderful online self help book

http://www.coping.org/

Coping.org-Tools for Relationships

http://www.coping.org/relations/content.htm

A list of Inspiring Articles

http://www.sharedheart.org/pages/columns.htm

Life and Health resources -topics listed on the left-

http://www.yourlifesuccess.com/ 

Inner Self Magizine

http://innerself.com/

Self Exploration

http://www.opencircles.nl/inspiration/self_exploration.htm

Social Phobia and Anxiety Resources

http://www.open-mind.org/SP/Help/

Lists very insightful articles -manic depressive/Bipolar

http://www.suite101.com/subjectheadings/index.cfm?next=56629

Lists very insightful articles -Borderline Personality

http://www.suite101.com/subjectheadings/contents.cfm/901

Psychogenic Symptoms That Co-Exist With Bipolar Disorder

http://willigocrazy.org/Ch06c.htm  and super website

The Medical Basis of Stress, Depression, Anxiety, Sleep Problems,
and Drugs Use Explained in Fun, Easy to Read, Format

http://www.teachhealth.com/

Intimacy and Depression-  By Ralph H. Desmarais, Ph.D.

http://www.awe-struck.net/PREVIEWS/INT_DEP/intimacyprv.html 

Fear of Intimacy- long but very insightful must read paper

http://www.yourlifesuccess.com/abuse/fearofintimacy.htm

Taming Your Turbulent Past: online book

http://www.magick.net/mlworden/turb/contents.htm 

Talk Therapy-just what does it take to recover?

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/4296/talktherapy.html

Critical Thinking-Assessing Your Thinking Style

http://members.iinet.net.au/~fractal1/fmod1.htm

Brain Blocks and Fallicies- a must read

http://members.iinet.net.au/~fractal1/fmod2.htm

Articles on Social Skills- a must read

http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/social_skills/soc-skills.html

You Can Recover- Website

http://www.peersupport.org/recover.htm

Bipolar in Kids Can mimic Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

http://www.connectingwithkids.com/tipsheet/2002/82_jul24/bipolar.html

List of Bipolar Books- very good site

http://www.psycom.net/bookstore.bipolar_gen.html

70 Signs Of Depression

http://www.coping-with-bipolar.com/?referrer=google

Depression|+"Jon G. Allen, PhD" --lists websites to articles he has written--

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=Depression%7C%2B%22Jon+G.+Allen%2C+PhD%22

Possible Outcomes of Possibly Harmful Childhood Experiences:

This Table can be considered, at best, a crude, tentative summary

of clinical hunches about several possible causes of your problems

or about possible consequences of your behavior.

http://mentalhelp.net/psyhelp/chap9/chap9l.htm 

Children of Parents with Mental Ilness -All Family Resources- 

http://familymanagement.com/facts/english/facts39.html 

"mentally ill parents"

http://search.looksmart.com/p/search?qt=%22mentally+ill+parents%22&tb=dir

List of articles on what to expect with Bipolar and Relationships

http://www.dating-singles-action.com/relationships/bipolar_relationships.htm 

Bipolar WebRing-

http://www.bomis.com/rings/Mdisorders-bipolar_disorder-health/

Bipolar websites

http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=Bipolar+

"Relationships"+"mental illness"  http://search.looksmart.com/  homepage

http://search.looksmart.com/p/search?qt=%22Relationships%22%2B%22+Mental+Illness.%22&tb=dir&sn=15&se=2,0,15,-1

"Relationships"+"Bipolar Disorder" 

 http://search.looksmart.com/p/search?qt=%22Relationships%22%2B%22bipolar+disorder%22&tb=dir

"bipolar"  394 results

http://search.looksmart.com/p/search?qt=%22bipolar+disorder%22&tb=dir