Best 10 Bipolar Books

1. The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide

By David J. Miklowitz

Trusted authority Dr. David J. Miklowitz shares proven strategies for managing your illness or supporting a loved one with the disorder. Learn specific steps to cope with mood episodes, reduce recurrences, avoid misdiagnosis, get the most out of treatment, resolve family conflicts, and make lifestyle changes to stay well.

2. Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder

By Julie A. Fast, John D. Preston

This book will help you create a more balanced, fulfilling relationship.

Improve your relationship by learning how to:

• Identify your partner’s symptom triggers so you can prevent episodes
• Improve communication by stopping irrational “bipolar conversations”
• Handle your partner’s emotional ups and downs
• Foster closeness and connection with your partner

3. Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder

By Julie A. Fast, John D. Preston

The book guides those with bipolar disorder and their loved ones toward a comprehensive personal treatment plan by incorporating:

• medications and supplements
• lifestyle changes
• behavior modifications
• guidelines on assembling an effective support team.

4. Bipolar Disorder For Dummies

By Candida Fink, Joe Kraynak

Bipolar Disorder For Dummies, 3rd Edition offers straightforward, reassuring information about bipolar disorder to help you or your loved one conquer the illness.

• Recognize the warning signs of mania and depression
• Tell the difference between bipolar I, bipolar II, and related conditions
• Discover which medications are best for treating both poles of bipolar disorder–depression and mania–and for treating related conditions, including anxiety
• Find practical strategies for dealing with medication side effects
• Develop communication, problem-solving, and conflict-management skills for preventing and dealing with the interpersonal conflict that often accompanies bipolar disorder
• Find out what you can do to help a loved one with bipolar disorder

5. Bipolar, Not So Much

By Chris Aiken MD, James Phelps MD

The authors empower readers to look beyond antidepressants. They walk readers through new medications for the mood spectrum, and offer a guide to non-medication treatments that anyone can use on their own, from diet and lifestyle changes to natural supplements. The book also discusses other innovative technologies that can aid in recovery, including dawn simulators, mood apps, and blue-light filters. 

6. Bipolar Disorder

By Francis Mark Mondimore

Winner of the American Book Fest Best Book Award in Health – Psychology/Mental Health by the American Book Fest

Compassionate and comprehensive, Dr. Francis Mondimore’s pathbreaking guide has helped thousands of people and their loved ones cope with bipolar disorder. Now in its fourth edition, Bipolar Disorder has been totally revised and reorganized to reflect dramatic improvements in the treatment of the illness, as well as numerous scientific breakthroughs that have increased our understanding of its causes.

7. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder

By Sheri Van Dijk MSW

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder will help you integrate your coping skills with a new and effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) plan for living well with bipolar disorder.

The four DBT skills you’ll learn in this workbook-mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness-will help you manage your emotional ups and downs and minimize the frequency and intensity of depressive and manic episodes. 

8. The Bipolar Workbook

By Monica Ramirez Basco

Leading expert Dr. Monica Ramirez Basco helps you understand the nature of bipolar illness and recognize the early warning signs of mood swings. Step-by-step exercises (you can download and print additional copies of the forms as needed) give you greater insight into your own triggers, vulnerabilities, and strengths.

9. The Bipolar II Disorder Workbook

By Stephanie McMurrich Roberts, Louisa Grandin Sylvia, Noreen A. Reilly-Harrington

Written by an extremely accomplished team of bipolar experts, The Bipolar II Disorder Workbook is designed to help you manage the recurring depression, hypomania, and anxiety that can arise as a result of your condition. The convenient workbook format combines evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and other mindfulness-based exercises to help you manage your emotions, track your progress, and ultimately live a happy and more productive life.

10. The Depression and Bipolar Workbook

By Chris Aiken MD

Written for therapists and clients alike, learn how to recognize unique symptoms of depression and bipolar and match them with the latest advances in CBT, light and dark therapy, diet and sleep techniques, and strategies to fix out-of-sync biological clocks. This is the mood-disorder aid clients have been waiting for.