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The Wellness Workbook for Bipolar Disorder: Your Guide to Getting Healthy and Improving Your Mood Workbook Edition, Kindle Edition

4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

Studies show there is a clear link between bipolar disorder and obesity-related illnesses. In this workbook, a leading Harvard Medical School researcher and bipolar expert presents a step-by-step, evidence-based behavioral lifestyle program to help people with bipolar disorder live healthy lives, regulate moods, and lose weight.

If you have bipolar disorder, you already know about the emotional ups and downs that can accompany this disorder. But you may not know that people with bipolar disorder are far more likely to die from obesity-related illnesses as a result of poor nutrition and poor lifestyle choices.

For the first time ever, this comprehensive workbook offers the proven-effective, Harvard-researched diet and lifestyle program made popular in the best-selling book Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy, to help you manage your moods, lose weight, and thrive.

When you are experiencing a manic or depressive episode, making healthy lifestyle choices is probably the last thing on your mind. That’s why The Wellness Workbook for Bipolar Disorder offers guidance to help you implement healthy changes into your daily life—one step at a time.

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“A must-read! Louisa Grandin Sylvia’s wellness plan addresses the key ingredients essential to creating a healthy lifestyle.”
Muffy Walker, MSN, MBA, cofounder and chairman of the International Bipolar Foundation

“When dealing with depression and other mood-related issues, we who have mood disorder diagnoses can become laser-focused on deficits or ‘fixing’ what’s ‘wrong.’ While symptom reduction and elimination are naturally goals of most people’s treatment plans, these can—and I’d say must—be joined with concurrent creation of wellness practices. Louisa Grandin Sylvia’s book is an empowering road map for those of us who want to shift our focus from solely reaction to symptoms to proactive creation of resiliency-enhancing diet, exercise, sleep, and other wellness-related choices.”
Allen Doederlein, president of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance

“There is no easy solution to creating a healthier lifestyle, especially if you have bipolar disorder, but this book can help. It offers user-friendly tools to increase your motivation to make the necessary lifestyle changes that you need to improve your mental and physical health. Anyone living with mood disturbance could benefit from reading this book.”
Lauren B. Alloy, PhD, professor at Joseph Wolpe Distinguished Faculty and director of clinical training at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA

“Louisa Grandin Sylvia has assembled an extraordinary resource that succinctly and comprehensively brings together empirically supported science and recommendations to preserve and regain health. I would strongly recommend that this book, written in an accessible manner, be on the reading list of any individual who strives for optimal physical and mental health.”
Roger S. McIntyre, MD, FRCPC, professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at the University of Toronto, and head of the Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit at the University Health Network


“We have only recently understood that lifestyle factors including smoking, physical inactivity, and poor diet contribute to a person’s risk of developing mood problems. We now know that addressing these factors reduces symptoms in people who have mood problems. What’s missing is a practical synthesis of this information to guide people who have mood problems on how to target these factors to improve their physical and mental health. This book by Louisa Grandin Sylvia, an acknowledged expert in lifestyle and mood disorders, is an invaluable aid for those wishing to take control of their lifestyles and improve their mood.”
Michael Berk, MD, NHMRC, senior principal research fellow and Alfred Deakin Professor of Psychiatry at the Deakin University School of Medicine


“Despite decades of research, there is no silver bullet that will quickly end bipolar disorder. The best way for someone with bipolar disorder to reclaim their life is by crafting a health-promoting lifestyle. The research on the effects of sleep, diet, and exercise are each compelling. This book brings the pieces together into an integrated approach that is clearly explained, with examples based on stories of people who have succeeded, and based on ongoing research. Experts advocate a lifestyle approach for ‘heart health.’ Louisa Grandin Sylvia provides a plan for ‘brain health.’ The strategies will complement other treatments by focusing on quality of life, energy, and functioning, not just reducing the symptoms and stress associated with bipolar disorder. This book is a leading example of the next-generation approach to mood disorders, recognizing the connection between body and mind and using that to help the whole person.”
Eric Youngstrom, PhD, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


“In this important book, Louisa Grandin Sylvia provides readers with a step-by-step approach for improving diet, exercise, and sleep—all habits that can have powerful effects on mood and health. Readers will find this book rich in information and clinical examples, with crucial attention devoted to the barriers and bad habits that can derail wellness goals.”
Michael W. Otto, PhD, professor of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University and author of Exercise for Mood and Anxiety Disorders

About the Author

Louisa Grandin Sylvia, PhD, is associate director of psychology at the Massachusetts General Hospital Bipolar Clinic and Research Program, director of health and wellness at the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program, and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. She is a skilled cognitive behavioral therapist who develops psychosocial interventions for bipolar disorder and serious mental illness. She is currently examining the efficacy of a nutrition, exercise, and wellness therapy for bipolar disorder.
 
Foreword writer
Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD, is director of the Bipolar Clinic and Research Program and associate director of the Depression Clinic and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Nierenberg has published over 400 papers and has been listed among the Best Doctors in North America for the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders continuously since 1994. He received the Gerald L. Klerman Young Investigator Award from the National Depressive and Manic Depression Association, the Brain and Behavior Foundation Colvin Prize for outstanding achievement in mood disorders research, and was listed among the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014 by Thomson Reuters for having the top 1% of literature citations in psychiatry/psychology worldwide.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B010CKAF5M
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Harbinger Publications; Workbook edition (September 1, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 1, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 15469 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
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Louisa Grandin Sylvia, PhD, is associate director of psychology at the Massachusetts General Hospital Bipolar Clinic and Research Program, and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Sylvia is a skilled cognitive-behavioral therapist who develops psychosocial interventions for bipolar disorder. She is currently examining the efficacy of a nutrition, exercise, and wellness therapy for bipolar disorder.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2015
    As one living with bipolar disorder for my life(I'm 67) I find the work sheets in Dr Sylvia's Wellness Book a constant supportive companion in living with my disease. I find the Thought Record and the Food. Log really helpful and I find that as I go through my days I reference chapters and work sheets that support me through the day. This is titled a workbook but it's truly a companion and handbook for me. For everyone struggling with this mood disorder, try this book. You'll have a true support.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2018
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2016
    This book uses skills that I learned in DBT. It was extremely useful and a reminder that you have to use the skills in order to change your life.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2017
    Great book will help in the long run.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2016
    Informative, useful and well written
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2020
    Not a good book to learn and understand about bipolar!!!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2016
    As a long time fitness professional and current professor in the field of Health and Human Performance it is clear to me that Dr. Sylvia displays a profound knowledge of cutting edge nutrition, exercise and wellness research in this excellent book. Not only that but as someone who has an extensive background in neuropsychology it is obvious that Dr. Sylvia has an intimate understanding of Bipolar Disorder and how it relates to and is influenced by lifestyle practices. This is a rare book in that it is not only on point scientifically but it is also written with compassion and empathy for what individuals and families that are dealing with Bipolar Disorder are going through. I believe readers will find it hits the "sweet spot" of both user friendliness and illuminating scientific insight. I can't imagine a better or more encouraging resource in this area than this fine work. Joe Malone Ph.D.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2015
    Dr. Sylvia’s latest book is an invaluable resource to both clinicians treating individuals with mood disorders as well as individuals who are struggling with mood disorders. She is a true expert in the field, yet this book is one of the most user-friendly guides to well-being I’ve read. Dr. Sylvia provides specific examples of ways in which her own patients benefit from changes in her NEW Tx (nutrition, exercise, and wellness treatment) and she provides empirically supported references that prove why these factors are so important in managing bipolar disorder. Her worksheets, nutritional and exercise guidelines, and her step-by-step guide to setting up an individualized wellness plan is not to be missed. A must-read for anyone with bipolar disorder. Amy Neeren, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist
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  • Katharina Frey
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wer bipolar ist, könnte in diesem Buch Erklärungen finden
    Reviewed in Germany on August 29, 2021
    Habe es nicht gelesen, mein Arzt hatte es mir nur empfohlen....

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