Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder Quotes

“It turns out that up to 35 percent of people with bipolar disorder also have ADHD.”
― Julie A. Fast, Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner

“It may be hard for you to understand, but many people with bipolar disorder become ill when they are obligated to do something on a schedule.”
― Julie A. Fast, Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner

“Arguments are very stimulating and trigger many bipolar disorder symptoms, from anxiety and panic attacks to violent behavior and suicidal thoughts. You can be the one to learn new tools to stop the arguments completely.”
― Julie A. Fast, Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner

“Triggers are situations, events, or behaviors that lead to predictable bipolar disorder symptoms. Once you both learn to discover, reduce, and eliminate these triggers, many of your partner’s bipolar disorder symptoms can be prevented or significantly minimized.”
― Julie A. Fast, Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner

“You can never talk to, cajole, or reason with someone who is in a bipolar disorder mood swing. The person you love is temporarily gone and bipolar disorder has moved in. This book will teach you to respond to bipolar disorder when your partner is ill instead of trying to talk your partner out of being ill.”
― Julie A. Fast, Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner

“Bipolar disorder thinking is always unreasonable and unrealistic. Always. There are no exceptions. So if your normally reasonable partner is being unreasonable, you know that you are dealing with bipolar disorder and not with a personality flaw.”
― Julie A. Fast, Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner

“When your partner is ill, their beliefs about themselves and the world are often distorted. If you try to talk with them about your relationship, work, or life in general, you often talk to the bipolar disorder instead of to the person you love.”
― Julie A. Fast, Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner