{"id":1010,"date":"2009-12-11T15:51:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T15:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:00:18","slug":"what-ive-learned-from-coaching-family-members-and-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/what-ive-learned-from-coaching-family-members-and-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Fast Bipolar Coaching: What I&#8217;ve Learned from Coaching Family Members and Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a story of how working with clients has taught me what information parents and partners truly need. If you have not visited my coaching page, here is the link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliefast.com\/family-coaching\/\">http:\/\/www.juliefast.com\/family-coaching\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0In 1994 after my then partner Ivan come home after a three month stay in the hospital- I thought to myself- on day I am going to help people get through something like this because there sure isn&#8217;t anyone here to help me get through it! Now, fifteen years later I am fulfilling my promise to myself. The coaching has been an amazing experience, but also a very surprising one. Here are a few things I have learned from working with so many clients:<\/p>\n<p>1. The system has hardly changed AT ALL compared to how it was in 1994. It still favors the patient over the family member and partner and\u00a0 many people with bipolar disorder who are obviously very ill are sent home as they are not completely a danger to themselves or others.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Psychosis is the most difficult symptom for family members and partners to understand. I have to point out a lot of psychotic behavior that is missed or confused with mania.<\/p>\n<p>3. Parents and partners are worn out, often scared, worried and frustrated with the system.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many commonalities &#8211; which makes sense as bipolar disorder is an illness with very set symptoms and behaviors!<\/p>\n<p>My first goal is to offer as much information as possible about bipolar itself- we can then work on\u00a0communcation, hospital visits and other topics.<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a story of how working with clients has taught me what information parents and partners truly need. If you have not visited my coaching page, here is the link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliefast.com\/family-coaching\/\">http:\/\/www.juliefast.com\/family-coaching\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p> In 1994 after my then partner Ivan come home after a three month stay in the hospital- I thought to myself- on day I am going to help people get through something like this because there sure isn&#8217;t anyone here to help me get through it! Now, fifteen years later I am fulfilling my promise to myself. The coaching has been an amazing experience, but also a very surprising one. Here are a few things I have learned from working with so many clients:<\/p>\n<p>1. The system has hardly changed AT ALL compared to how it was in 1994. It still favors the patient over the family member and partner and many people with bipolar disorder who are obviously very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/what-ive-learned-from-coaching-family-members-and-partners\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11924,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/11924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}