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A compassionate, interactive guide filled with practical skills and essential information for adults who love someone with a mental illness or history of trauma.
Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Awards by the Independent Book Publishers Association
Family members and friends of adults with a mental illness often navigate difficult journeys, filled with fear, heartache, frustration, helplessness, exhaustion, and guilt—feelings that may be intermingled with immense pride and hope. Suffering in silence can magnify confusion, isolation, and pain.
Loving Someone with a Mental Illness or History of Trauma provides actionable strategies for these family members and friends who give so much but whose needs and sacrifices are often unappreciated. Written by clinical psychologist Dr. Michelle Sherman and her mother, DeAnne Sherman, an advocate and educator, the book provides research-based recommendations, practical skills, up-to-date resources, inspiration from families with lived experience, and interactive activities to encourage personal reflection.
This accessible guide teaches readers:
• Tools to cope with difficult emotions
• Strategies to empower loved ones, including how to navigate the mental health system
• Communication and limit-setting skills
• Approaches to supporting loved ones who have experienced trauma or have PTSD
• Ways to manage common challenges, such as alcohol or drug misuse, and when a loved one declines professional help
• Strategies to support children
• Skills to build personal resilience and strengthen relationships
Grounded in science, empowering, and hopeful yet realistic, this book is an invaluable resource for family members, friends, and mental health professionals.
Contents
Welcome
Guide to Using this Book
Snapshot of Your Story
Part One: Reflecting on Your Experience
1. Your Emotional Journey
2. Your Coping Tools
3. Your Support Network
4. Stigma and Discrimination
5. Naming Losses and Moving Toward Acceptance
Part Two: Supporting Your Loved One
6. Empowering Your Loved One in Living Their Best Life
7. Navigating the Health Care System
Part Three: Strengthening Your Relationship with Your Loved One
8. Strengthening Your Connection
9. Communication
10. Limit Setting
11. Intimate Relationships
12. Parenting with a Partner Who Has a Mental Illness or Has Experienced Trauma
Part Four: Managing Common Challenges
13. When Your Loved One Doesn't Acknowledge the Illness or Declines Help
14. Addictive Behaviors Including Alcohol and Drug Use
15. Possible Impacts of Trauma (Including Post traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD)
16. Mental Health Crises
Wrap Up
Acknowledgments
Appendices
Resource List
Notes
Index
About the Authors
