A hopeful, supportive guide to getting your life back after bipolar diagnosis

You have just received the diagnosis: Bipolar disorder. Now what?

Many questions arise, about how to tell friends and family, about living a normal life, working, medical treatment, dealing with doctors...

Rest assured – there is a life AFTER diagnosis! In this per- sonal account, at times moving, always supportive, Lynn Hodges guides you through living and working with bipolar disorder with the authority of someone who has been there. Along the way, she answers all these questions and more.

Family, friends, caregivers, or mental health professionals will find this to be an invaluable guide to understanding what life is like for a person with bipolar disorder, and how best to help them.

Lynn Hodges has unfortunately had a lot of experience with mental illness. In addition to a family history of mental illness, Lynn herself has been diagnosed with Bipolar One – the most serious mental health illness in the category of Bipolar Disorder. Despite all this, Hodges is an amazing survivor who has learned to embrace her illness in everyday life. In this she has been so successful that she now facilitates for the Kent Council (UK) classes and workshops on "What it is like to live and work with Bipolar Disorder" to both mental health professionals as well as patients.