THINKING THROUGH BIPOLAR: A CBT & DBT Workbook for Adults
Bipolar disorder doesn't just affect your mood. It shapes how you think, how you sleep, how you make decisions, and how you see the future. This workbook gives you a practical, clinically grounded set of tools to work with all of it.Thinking Through Bipolar is a 38-page self-help workbook written by a licensed clinical psychologist, drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) — the most research-supported psychological approach for bipolar disorder — with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills woven in as a powerful complement for managing emotional intensity and distress.This is not a book about accepting your diagnosis. It is a book about getting better at living with it.What's inside:• Psychoeducation on the bipolar spectrum, episode types, and the stress-vulnerability model• Mood tracking tools including a weekly log, mood scale, and personal early warning signs worksheet• Complete CBT cognitive distortion tables — with separate entries for depressive and hypomanic/manic thinking• Full thought record worksheets with worked examples for both episode types• Behavioral activation, activity scheduling, and social rhythm therapy principles• Chapter-length guides to managing depressive episodes and hypomanic/manic escalation• DBT distress tolerance skills: STOP, TIPP, ACCEPTS, and self-soothe• DBT emotion regulation skills: Check the Facts, Opposite Action, PLEASE, and mindfulness• A complete personal stability plan including warning signs grid, coping toolkit, support network map, and safety plan• Crisis resources including the 988 Suicide & Crisis LifelineBest used alongside ongoing therapy and medication management — not as a replacement for either.About the author: John M. Warrington, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist in California specializing in chronic pain, psychological trauma, and neuropsychological assessment. He works within a Functional Restoration Program and is the author of the Thinking Through series of evidence-based self-help workbooks.
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