http://www.marriedtomania.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 27 May 2009 09:00:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Contemplating marriage to someone with bipolar disorder? Your marriage will not be like any of your friends' or family who do not have to deal with this extra relationship challenge.  Here are 15 questions to ask the psychiatrist about your future husband or wife if he/she has been diagnosed with bipolar ... http://www.marriedtomania.com/15-questions-to-ask-your-future-bipolar-husbands-psychiatrist "If recent research has taught us anything," says Carol Jacobson, psychiatric social worker, "it's that families also pay a price from bipolar disorder in the form of emotional pain, social isolation and stressed interpersonal relationships." Children may withdraw from the family unit, couples pull away or drift apart, individuals become isolated ... http://www.marriedtomania.com/bipolar-disorder-can-leave-permanent-emotional-scars-on-husbands-and-wives With a bipolar husband in the family, sometimes avoidance is easier than communicating. That's what Mary J resorted to with her bipolar husband. "His verbal abuse got so bad I just avoided him," said Mary J. of her husband, who was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder. It's not uncommon for ... http://www.marriedtomania.com/coping-with-a-bipolar-husband-is-a-family-affair For a long time now, researchers have suspected a genetic link to bipolar disorder. But they've not been able to find it conclusively. In a new study, doctors pooled resources to create the largest genetic analysis of its kind to date for bipolar disorder and discovered machinery involved in the balance ... http://www.marriedtomania.com/researchers-pool-resources-in-bipolar-disorder-genetic-study Should You Stay Married To Your Bipolar Husband or Wife? By Elizabeth Atlas Husbands, wives, girlfriends, boyfriends of partners with Bipolar Disorder are the overlooked and underserved mental illness support network of the Bipolar treatment world. First, we are never secure about our own emotional needs. Are they more or less important the ... http://www.marriedtomania.com/marriage • World Website Directory http://www.marriedtomania.com/directory Why My Marriage To a Bipolar Husband Qualified Me To Write a Best-Seller on Being "Married To Mania" ...And Why the Bipolar Support Groups Don't Want You To Read My True Story After 15 years of marriage to a bipolar husband, I wanted to help other spouses who were married to bipolar husbands and wives ... http://www.marriedtomania.com/bestseller The Story Behind the Book About Marriage To a Bipolar Husband or Bipolar Wife The Bi polar Support Groups Don't Want You To Read (con't) How To Be "Married To Mania" It was a tough education. I had to learn tips for dealing with the medical and insurance establishments without ... http://www.marriedtomania.com/bestseller2 Sobering Advice for You When Your Bipolar Husband or Wife Resists Getting Help It's frustrating and at times frightening, but, nonetheless, it's true. If your husband or wife is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, he or she may resist getting professional help. When they're depressed, they don't believe help is possible. And when ... http://www.marriedtomania.com/bipolarhelp Information About Bipolar Disorder in Wives and Husbands I wish I could promise you a happy ending in your marriage to a spouse with bipolar disorder. I wish I could give you a checklist of things to do to guarantee whatever success you're seeking. But bipolar disorder or manic depression doesn't ... http://www.marriedtomania.com/information