You are more than your bipolar disorder. Cultivate self-acceptance, reduce symptoms, and prevent future episodes with this innovative and proven-effective workbook.
If you have bipolar disorder, you may experience painful self-stigma that is driven by social exclusion, harassment, and discrimination-which can affect your work, relationships, and self-esteem. This self-stigma can lead to even more emotional distress, and even trigger future episodes. So, how can you move past the shame and negative self-talk that stand between you and lasting recovery?
Written by an expert in bipolar disorder-who also lives with bipolar-and based on their Overcoming Self-Stigma in Bipolar Disorder program, this step-by-step workbook offers innovative, proven-effective, and empowering tools to help you stabilize your moods and increase your overall well-being. You'll learn to challenge negative messages about what it means to be bipolar, humanize your mental health struggles, and cultivate unwavering self-compassion and self-acceptance. Most importantly, you'll come to understand that you are so much more than your diagnosis.
Discover validating activities and skills to:
• Unmask shame and reclaim your identity
• Move past negative thoughts
• Reduce symptom triggers and balance your moods
• Improve confidence and prevent future episodes
Bipolar disorder is a part of your life experience, but it doesn't have to define who you are. If you're ready to move beyond the pain of self-stigma, reclaim your self-worth, stabilize your moods, and start feeling your best, this workbook can help guide you, step by step.
People living with bipolar disorder often experience painful self-stigma that is driven by social exclusion, harassment, and discrimination-which can affect their work, relationships, and self-esteem. Written by an expert in bipolar disorder, this workbook offers an innovative, proven-effective, and empowering approach to help readers reduce self-stigma, break free from shame, stabilize their moods, and increase overall well-being. Andrea B. Vassilev, PsyD, is the creator of the Overcoming Self-Stigma in Bipolar Disorder program. Vassilev holds a doctorate in psychology, with specialty expertise in bipolar disorder, and as someone who has lived with bipolar disorder for twenty-five years. She is a mental health advocate and is regularly asked to speak, write, present, and consult on the lived experience of bipolar disorder and other mental health struggles. She was nominated for the Social Health Network Award in the category of Revolutionary Researcher in 2024. She is on the interventions task force of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders, which includes the world's leading experts on bipolar. Vassilev resides in Los Angeles, CA.
