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ipolar disorder or manic depression ? that most romantic of madnesses, can damage every aspect of your life, from work to relationships, education to money. Sadly, medication is only a partial answer.
If you are ready to stop the pain and losses of bipolar disorder and live confidently, you can start changing your life today.
As they say, knowledge is power. In my book Bipolar and the Art of Roller-coaster Riding, you will learn all the medical facts about the condition.
But just as medication alone is not enough, neither is it enough to rely on medical knowledge alone.
The most powerful tool to manage bipolar disorder is know-how. I give you the practical know-how you need to control bipolar disorder in a simple 6 step program.
This award winning book will show you how to
Spot the signs of a crisis of bipolar disorder.
Use your 'brakes' to stop the illness from getting worse.
Arrange safety nets to protect all aspects of your life from being damaged by bipolar disorder.
You are in the driver's seat. I leave it to you to decide what's right for your life. This book will not boss you around!
Here's how you benefit from this award-winning e-book ?
learn about bipolar disorder and how it works, so you can make informed choices about treatment;
discover techniques to limit the damage that your illness can cause to your life;
get ahead with money, work, education, money management, relationships, parenting and cope with conflicting religious messages;
develop confidence to get what you need, and not suffer discrimination because of bipolar disorder;
become the person you always wanted to be!
Beware! This e-book could make you laugh.
You might get a feeling that you're among friends.
You will get lots of new ideas about ways you can make your life better.

Why not browse / search the e-book at Google Books?

Or see the Table of Contents
If you're looking for a comprehensive, definitive guide to bipolar disorder that will be a lasting investment, Bipolar and the Art of Roller-coaster Riding meets all the criteria ?
Authoritative
Medically accurate and up to date
Written from the sufferer's perspective
Social issues as well as medical ones
Practical approach to actively managing bipolar disorder
Widely acclaimed by medical and sufferer reviewers
Winner of prestigious award (1st edition)

Find out how?
To survive the injustices of hospital treatment
To know when to change doctors, and when to stick with the one you have
To beat not just bipolar, but also other people's attitudes
To benefit from proven psychological techniques (CBT) on a day to day basis
To find and keep a good job and deal with discrimination at work
To manage money, even if you're a 'manic spender'
To use nutrition, light and exercise to stay well
To deal with worried family members
Bipolar & the Art of Roller-coaster Riding
is available now for US $44.95
to buy your copy now, click on the e-book

BONUS CHILDREN'S E-BOOK!
You can now explain bipolar disorder to young children with a delightful, symbolic story. This children's story, "The Rainbow Angels," also by Madeleine Kelly, is included free in a separate download.
About your purchase
When you buy "Bipolar & the Art of Rollercoaster Riding", it will come as a downloadable Acrobat? (.pdf) file which you can download.
To read or print the book you will need the free Acrobat Reader. Click on the picture to download the Acrobat Reader if you don't already have it.

"Bipolar & the Art of Rollercoaster Riding" is around 1MB in size, so it may take some minutes to download, depending on your connection speed.
When you click on the image of the book, a new window will open and you will be taken to ClickBank for secure credit card processing. When the transaction has been completed, you will be directed back to this site and given downloading instructions.
Guarantee
ClickBank will, at its option, replace or repair any defective product within 60 days / 8 weeks from the date of purchase. After this period all sales are final.
The abundance of material and ideas in Bipolar and the Art of Roller-coaster Riding is designed to support and enhance your relationship with your doctor or mental health worker, not to replace it. Should you have any questions of a non-clinical nature, please send an email to Madeleine AT BeatBipolar DOT com and I will attend personally to your request. You can phone me (note I am at Greenwich Mean Time + 14 hours) on +61 3 5790 5152.

If you are feeling desperately unwell as you read this, phone or visit a friend or neighbor, or call your hospital, treating doctor or your area's helpline. Hold on. If you like, read this first from metanoia.org.
This feeling will pass, but you must keep yourself safe until then. Good luck.

An e-book is an electronic book. It has no pages, no print but you can download it (take a copy of it through the internet) and print it from your computer. E-books don't waste paper and they don't need fossil fuels to bring them to your bookshop. You can buy special e-book readers, or use the Reading View in Microsoft Word. I gather most people print them out and read them just like a normal paper book. One advantage of a printed-out e-book is that you can make notes on the pages ? you can always print another clean page if you want to!
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Reviews
"Unashamedly written from the perspective of people who have manic depression...This is a comprehensive, detailed, practical and immensely readable book...that will help readers get through the maze of manic depression. ? Barbara Hocking, Executive Director, SANE Australia
"Maddy, your book saved my life! Thanks!" ? Helga*
"We are enormously grateful...your book has helped us to understand what it's like to have bipolar disorder. Our son [with bipolar] has really made progress" ? Bev and Joe
"I have started practicing some of the suggested techniques... with all the right things in place of late I have been well for the longest time. I totally recommend this book." ? Louis
"I could not recommend it highly enough." ? Zack
"It was a great help to, not just myself, but to my family members also struggling to come to terms with the situation." ? Debbie
"This book (is) hugely refreshing, original, practical and really useful. ? Dr Brendan O'Shea, Ireland
"This ...superb...book has immediately gone into my 'must-read' trilogy for patients/consumers with this illness (and their families and friends)" ? Prof Phillip Mitchell, University of NSW, Sydney Australia
"The most comprehensive book for sufferers and carers of Bipolar Disorder that I have read." ? Dr David Grounds, consultant psychiatrist.
"Brilliantly evocative, funny and practical" ? Moira Rayner, human rights lawyer and writer.
*Sufferers' names have been changed.
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ISBN 0-646-44939-7
Searchable File in Adobe PDF format.
182 pages, Glossary
First published 2000 as 'Life on a Roller-coaster: living well with depression and manic depression' by Simon & Schuster (Australia).
Awarded SANE Australia Book of the Year in 2001
This edition 2005 ? Madeleine Kelly published by Two Trees Media (Australia).

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This site and the book Bipolar and the Art of Roller-coaster Riding, the 2nd edition of Life on a Roller-coaster - living well with depression and manic depression contain the opinions and ideas of the author, Madeleine Kelly. The site and the book are intended to provide helpful and informative material on the subjects addressed. The book is sold with the understanding that the author is not engaged in rendering medical, health, or any othe