Bipolar Disorder/suggested reading?

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Hi Dr. Goldberg,

I am bipolar and have problems connecting my thoughts with my feelings.  I'm experiencing a lot of anxiety, because i feel like my emotions come out of nowhere and overwhelm me. i'm almost like different people when im feeling different emotions. and its scary because i don't know where they are coming from.

I was wondering if you had any reading suggestions for me, or ideally a workbook i can do to help me understand where my emotions come from. I thought perhaps you had seen this problem in your other bipolar patients?

i don't want to treat this with more medication, any advice would be great. please!


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Hi . . .

While you might find the workbook at:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1572243635/qid=1114742523/sr=1-6/r...

to be useful. I think people need to get their moods under control via medical treatment before they can really profit from such a book.

Best regards . . .

Ivan
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Ivan Goldberg, M.D.

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I am a psychiatrist/psychopharmacologist with many years of expereince in treating individuals with depressions, manic-depression (Bipolar Disorder), other mood disorders,. I am especially interested in the psychopharmacologic treatment of individuals with so called "treatment-resistant" syndromes.

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I have been on the staff of the National Institute of Mental Health, Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. I am currently in full-time private practice in New York City.

A.B. Johns Hopkins University
M.D. N.Y.U. College of Medicine

I am the creator of Depression Central:http://www.psycom.net/depression.central.html

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