Summary of New Hope for People with Bipolar Disorder

The book I read part of was called New Hope for People with Bipolar Disorder. It consisted of non-bias information on the inner conflicts and feelings people deal with as caregivers of people diagnosed with Bipolar. The main message of the section went as quoted: "Our reactions to other people give us more insight to ourselves than to others. If we choose only to focus on the behavior of others, we will get to know how the behave. If we focus on how we are influenced by others and still look further inward, we will more clearly recognize our inner self." It went on to explain how although that message can be directed to anyone, more specifically, it's related to caregivers of people diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. Even more specifically, teens in close relationships with these people have to battle to focus on how to find out about themselves, and letting all the caring they do define who they are.

Fawcett, Jan, Bernard Golden, Frederick K. Goodwin, and Nancy Rosenfeld. "Living With People With Bipolar Disorder."New Hope for People with Bipolar Disorder: Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional and Complementar y Solutions, Including: Proper ... Depression & Manic-Depressive ... (New Hope). 1 ed. new york: Three Rivers Press, 2000. 264-265. Print.