{"product_id":"loving-someone-with-a-serious-mental-illness-caring-for-your-loved-one-and-yourself-on-the-journey-to-mental-health-recovery-9781648483837","title":"Loving Someone with a Serious Mental Illness: Caring for Your Loved One and Yourself on the Journey to Mental Health Recovery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePowerful and practical tools to help you support your loved one with serious mental illness, while also making room for your own needs. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e If you have a loved one--a spouse, adult child, or other family member--who has a mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or depression and is experiencing symptoms like psychosis, you need help right \u003ci\u003enow\u003c\/i\u003e. Delusions and hearing voices can be frightening. Mania can be unpredictable. Isolation and withdrawal can make things worse. Things are made even more challenging when your loved one is resistant to treatment. You may feel helpless watching them struggle. And you may question whether you can handle the myriad everyday practical and emotional challenges ahead. It's important to know that you are not alone. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Authors Katherine Ponte and Izzy Goncalves have been there. They \u003ci\u003eare\u003c\/i\u003e there. During Katherine's ongoing eighteen-year recovery from severe bipolar disorder and depression, her husband Izzy has been her primary caregiver. Together through trial, trauma, and triumph, they have amassed an unmatched store of lived experiences, shared perspectives, and lessons learned. They now bravely share, for the first time, everything they have come to understand about the challenges they've faced and surmounted together. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A vital resource for families combating mental illness, this book will help you: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Maintain and improve communication between you and your loved one \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Better understand your loved one's feelings and emotions \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Handle special situations, including de-escalating an emergency \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Discover different options for treatment \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Make room for self-care \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e The book never forgets one crucial truth: \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c\/i\u003e have needs, too. That's why the authors provide resources to ensure that you stay healthy, well-rested, and energized, so you can help your loved one on the path to recovery. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatherine Ponte\u003c\/b\u003e is a mental health advocate, author, nonprofit leader, entrepreneur, coach, and lawyer. She is a certified psychiatric rehabilitation practitioner, and faculty member in the department of psychiatry's Program for Recovery and Community Health at Yale University and a graduate of The University of Pennsylvania. She built the ForLikeMinds platform of recovery-focused mental health initiatives and its associated community of over 100,000 that has reached millions. She is on the board of the National Alliance on Mental Illness-NYC. Katherine is author of \u003ci\u003eForLikeMinds\u003c\/i\u003e. She has lived with severe bipolar I disorder with psychosis, including extended periods of suicidal depression for over twenty years, and has been happily living in recovery since 2018. She is based in New York, NY, and the Catskills. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIzzy Goncalves\u003c\/b\u003e has worked in finance for nearly thirty years, and has been the primary caregiver for his spouse, Katherine. He has been instrumental in helping her develop several mental illness recovery initiatives. He is a \u003ci\u003emagna cum laude \u003c\/i\u003eand Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Brown University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Foreword writer \u003cb\u003eMatt Kudish, LMSW, MPA\u003c\/b\u003e, is CEO of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City, Inc. He has taught at the Columbia School of Social Work at Columbia University, and has guest lectured at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Harbinger Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51186680070418,"sku":"9781648483837","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_62c31884-9d4d-43f8-8968-63c9a4dc6a97.jpg?v=1744629704","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/loving-someone-with-a-serious-mental-illness-caring-for-your-loved-one-and-yourself-on-the-journey-to-mental-health-recovery-9781648483837","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}