Bipolar Education Programme

Welcome to the Bipolar Education Programme section of the website. We aim to make this a useful and relevant access point for people who are living with bipolar disorder.

Our Mission is to provide psychoeducation , and facilitate adjustment for individuals and their families who are living with bipolar affective disorder and therefore promote wellbeing and reduce the risk of relapse.

Psychoeducation is an intervention that has proven to be very effective in combination with medication, in helping to reduce the number of bipolar recurrences and hospitalizations.

In this section you will find:

General information about Bipolar Disorder and Treatment and details about our Bipolar Education Programme.

You may have recently received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder or perhaps your doctor is considering it as a possibility. You may be finding it hard to come to terms with your diagnosis or perhaps finding it difficult to make any sense of it. Alternatively you may be living with the illness for some time and be keen to learn more about its treatment and management.

If you have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder you probably have many questions about the illness, its causes and treatments available.It is natural to feel concerned, being diagnosed with an illness can be scary.

The Bipolar Education Programme has been designed to provide education about bipolar disorder and answer commonly asked questions about it. Our hope is that through attending you may find the answers to some of those questions. Our aim is to help you gain a better understanding of the illness and its treatment aspects, thereby enabling you to better make sense of your own personal experience. Having a greater understanding of Bipolar disorder may help you to come to terms with the illness and learn more about practical self-management approaches. Self-management simply means becoming an expert on your illness and taking charge of staying well. As part of the programme we explore various strategies that have been proven to help a person to maintain their mood stability and reduce the risks of recurrence.

If you are a family member who’s loved one has Bipolar Disorder you may be going through a similar experience. Bipolar disorder not affects not only the life of the person with bipolar but the lives of those who care for them. It is important to educate yourself about bipolar disorder and what is helpful to the person who is experiencing bipolar. Support is a really important aspect of recovery but it is also important to ensure that you properly care for yourself.

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