All Three Books by Dr. Bunch on Soft Bipolar and Cyclothymic Disorder, 550 pages: Soft Bipolar Suffering, Lifelong Depression with occasional up energy states Soft Bipolar Questions, Book 1: Questions of most common patient concerns with full answers Soft Bipolar Questions, Book 2, Creativity, Soul, Negative Thoughts with intro to Blue Light Management

Bipolar disorder is a chronic and debilitating mental illness affecting a significant proportion of the world's population. It is associated with significant impairments in health-related quality of life and psychosocial functioning, and has significant illness-related morbidity and heightened mortality rates due to medical comorbidities and suicide. The management of this disorder requires a complex combination of pharmacological and psychosocial interventions which can be challenging for clinicians. Written by world experts in the field of bipolar disorder, The Treatment of Bipolar Disorder: Integrative Clinical Strategies and Future Directions provides readers with a concise and comprehensive guide to the integrative management of bipolar disorder. This resource contains 31 chapters on the various management choices available, from both established and novel treatment areas, such as psychoeducation, psychotherapeutic interventions, neuromodulatory approaches and novel therapeutic targets. The complexity and diversity of the management choices available makes this a continually evolving field and necessitates forward thinking. By both discussing the current management of bipolar disorder, and the future developments available, this resource provides all clinicians working with patients with bipolar disorder an up-to-date and reflective guide to its management and what the future holds.

Tried everything but still not feeling better? If your depression keeps coming back or is even getting worse, then you may be suffering from bipolar II or “soft” bipolar disorder. Commonly misdiagnosed, these mood disorders are characterized by recurring bouts of depression along with anxiety, irritability, mood swings, sleep problems, or intrusive thoughts. Why Am I Still Depressed? shows you how to identify if you have a nonmanic form of bipolar disorder and how to work with your doctor to safely and effectively treat it. Author James R. Phelps, M.D., gives you the latest tools and knowledge so you can: Understand the Mood Spectrum, a powerful new tool for diagnosis Know all your treatment options, including mood-stabilizing medications and research-tested psychotherapies Examine the potential hazards of taking antidepressant medications Manage your condition with exercise and lifestyle changes Help family and friends with this condition understand their diagnosis and find treatment

Summary of Blue Light Management Points 10 Introducing this book 13 Blue Light Management for Bipolar 18 Blue Light Stories 40 Further Resources 112 Use of the Light Box 149 Your Charting of Light and Symptoms 156 Conclusion 162 Resources: our other books blogs, and projects 165 Soft Bipolar Symptoms Lists 185 Your notes 198

Blue Light Management for Soft Bipolar Cyclothymia Companion to book Soft Bipolar Suffering And Questions and Answers 1 and 2

Persons with soft bipolar and cyclothymia mood disorder can not only rescue their own souls but create a positive and healing life with this guide workbook by Charles K. Bunch, Ph.D. Readers will work through a series of thought provoking questions to uncover both pain and self worth.

Finally, there is something you can do with bipolar disorder/cyclothymia to reduce the highs and lows. A groundbreaking understanding of the management of your daily contact with blue light to the eyes leads to easy to follow ideas that lowers your hypomanic highs and elevates your winter and sometimes hot summer blues. These concepts are used daily and with all patients being treated at Boise Bipolar Center by Charles Bunch, Ph.D., clinical therapist. Dr. Bunch has 30 years experience treating the bipolar mood disorders. He is also author of the books; Soft Bipolar Suffering, Soul of the Soft Bipolar, and Soul of the Soft Bipolar Supporter. Numerous websites and other resources are listed in this book to help you make change day one.

They don't believe you when you tell them of transient depression and anxiety. Your days are one of either having energy or not. Thoughts and memories are vivid and hurt. Will you be able to pull of a successful life or be relegated to just life in bed? Its a lot of work to have Soft Bipolar and you need to know there is information and help! Dr. Bunch is the director of Boise Bipolar Center and author of several books on Soft Bipolar Disorder and other mental health topics. He cares and he can write this book because he listened to to the suffering of his patients. There is hope.

The New York Times bestseller “A glistening psychological history, faceted largely by the biographies of eight famous leaders . . .” —The Boston Globe “A provocative thesis . . . Ghaemi’s book deserves high marks for original thinking.” —The Washington Post “Provocative, fascinating.” —Salon.com Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center, offers a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership and sets forth a controversial, compelling thesis: The very qualities that mark those with mood disorders also make for the best leaders in times of crisis. From the importance of Lincoln's "depressive realism" to the lackluster leadership of exceedingly sane men as Neville Chamberlain, A First-Rate Madness overturns many of our most cherished perceptions about greatness and the mind.

Provides a one-stop evidence-based guide to the management of all types of mood disorders.