Helping someone with mental illness

Komrad, M. S. (2012). You Need Help! – A Step-by-step Plan to Convince a Loved One to Get Counseling. [Amazon] [Available at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library]

Morey, B., & Muser, K. T. (2007). The Family Intervention Guide to Mental Illness. [Amazon] [Available at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library]

Young, J., & Adamec, A. (2013). When Your Adult Child Breaks Your Heart: Coping With Mental Illness, Substance Abuse, And The Problems That Tear Families Apart. [Amazon] [Available as an ebook from the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library / Oregon Digital Library Consortium - Library To Go]

The New Harbinger Loving Someone (with a mental illness) Series: [New Harbinger] [Amazon]. Includes volumes for: ADHD; Anxiety; Asperger's Syndrome; Bipolar Disorder; In Recovery (from substance dependence); OCD; PTSD.

(4B) Books for anxiety disorders

Thieda, K. N. (2013). Loving Someone with Anxiety: Understanding and Helping Your Partner (The New Harbinger Loving Someone Series). [Amazon]

Also see my webpage for Anxiety Disorders

(4C) Books for Bipolar Disorder

Fast, J. A. (2012). Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder. The New Harbinger Loving Someone Series. [Amazon] [Available at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library]

Miklowitz, D. J. (2010) The Bipolar Disorder survival guide: What you and your family need to know, 2nd edition. Guilford. [Amazon] [Available at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library]

Otto, M. W. (2012). Living with Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Individuals and Families. Oxford. [Amazon] [Entire book available for free online]

See my page of resources for significant others of people with bipolar disorder.

(4D) Books for Borderline Personality Disorder

See my webpage for significant others of people with BPD.

(4E) Dementia

Bass, P. (2011). Loving someone who has dementia: how to find hope while coping with stress and grief. [Amazon] [Available at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library]

Also see my webpage for Caregiver Stress

(4F) Books for Depression

Golant, M., & Golant, S. K. (2000). What to Do When Someone You Love Is Depressed: A Self-Help and Help-Others Guide. [Amazon] [Available at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library]

Also see my webpage for Depressive Disorders

(4G) Books for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Loving Someone with OCD, Karen J. Landsman, Kathleen M. Rupertus, and Cherry Pedrick. New Harbinger.

When a Family Member Has OCD: Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Skills to Help Families Affected by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Jon Hershfield, MFT

Also see my webpage for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

(4H) Books for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Matsakis, A. (2014). Loving someone with PTSD: A practical guide to understanding and connecting with your partner after trauma. New Harbinger. [Available at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library]

Also see my webpage for Trauma-Related Disorders

(4I) Books for Psychotic Disorders (including Schizophrenia)

Mueser, K. T., & Gingerich, S. (2006). The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia: Helping Your Loved One Get the Most Out of Life. [Amazon] [Available at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library]

Torrey, E. F. (2006). Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Patients and Providers. [Amazon] [Available at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library]

Also see my webpage for Psychotic Disorders

(5) Helping vs enabling

Good Therapy.org: Enabling 101: How Love Becomes Fear and Help Becomes Control

Psychology Today - Are you empowering or enabling?

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