The Impact of An Emotional High: How to Talk About Bipolar Disorder with Your Family

by Jen Kraakevik

Author Jen Kraakevik takes readers on her whole hearted, beautifully messy journey to make sense of bipolar disorder in her part how-to and part memoir book, The Impact of an Emotional High: How to Talk about Bipolar Disorder with Your Family.

Learn from her deeply personal discoveries about how she learned to talk about her father’s diagnosis with her family. She reveals her struggles, emotions, unhelpful thought patterns and viewpoints coloring her lived experiences of bipolar disorder to inspire and connect with those who also have family members diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She gently guides readers to learn how to talk with their own family members by creating goals, deciding what to ask, allowing for grief, practicing new ways of communication and knowing what to do when they don’t know what to do.

The Impact of an Emotional High gives readers a chance to process, connect and talk about bipolar disorder so that they can come out of hiding and make necessary changes in their own lives.

200 pages, Paperback

Published January 20, 2021

Reviews

[Jen]

Jen establishes a relationship with her readers, where she brings her own experiences to support anyone who has a family member diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Using the tools that she has learned over her entire life with her dad's diagnosis, she lovingly expresses her story, then turns it over to showing her reader how to engage with their family in the same fashion, finally giving resources she wished she had too. This book is meant to support and help people express themselves and gain freedom surrounding bipolar disorder in the world.