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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
