Therapy goals for teens and young adults include:

• Awareness of bipolar disorder - what triggers and fuels mania and depression to take preventative measures
  

• Devise a plan for preventing or minimizing the effects of episodes.
  

• Develop structure and boundaries for living with Bipolar Disorder
  

• Talk openly and candidly about living with Bipolar Disorder about what happens, obstacles, fears, and the unspoken experiences that they feel no one understands unless they've experienced it.
  

• Address all of the emotional pain caused by experiencing Bipolar Disorder and being labeled "Bipolar" (ex. shame, blame, guilt, fear, denial, anger, resentment etc)
  

• Strengthen self-esteem, self-worth, and self-respect
  

• Enrich identity that is separate from Bipolar Disorder
  

• Develop life skills, life goals, and a plan for achieving them
  

• Build or Rebuild trust and belief in themselves
  

• Create opportunity for self-expression
  

• Relapse prevention
  

• Medication compliance
  

• Strengthening the support system
  

• Talk about suicide
  

• Suicide prevention
  

Helping Teens & Young Adults Succeed With Bipolar Disorder

Therapy For Living With

Bipolar Disorder

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