Bipolar disorder causes shifts in a person's mood, energy, and ability to function. The illness has its pleasurable moments, to be sure, but it often causes damage to relationships, poor school performance and can even lead to suicide. The good news is that bipolar disorder can be treated and people with it can live happy and productive lives.
One of our goals is to provide you with resources related to bipolar disorder in general and those that specifically focus on teens. Learning how to manage bipolar, relate to the expierences of others with the illness and get the best possible treatment are all key to living a good life. We hope the resoures here provide you with hope and assistance.
Please feel free to suggest links by writing us at teens@dbsanova.org.
Mood Charts to help you track your moods and other symptoms in order to know yourself better and help your family, friends, therapists and psychatrists better help you.
Magazines, newsletters and other publications that help you learn more information about bipolar.
Websites for groups that help teens with bipolar disorder.
Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation
Depression Bipolar Support Alliance
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Bipolar Page
Living with Bipolar as a Teen: School
Mental Health Services in the area for teens with bipolar disorder.
New Dominion School of Virginia
Help finding a psychiatrist or theraptist who is board certified to treat teenagers.
Board Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists
Child and Adolescent Psychologists
Online bipolar support groups that are just for teens.
Teen Bipolar Support Group at DailyStrength
Suicide Prevention groups and national bipolar organizations
American Foundation for Suicide Provention
Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation
Books on teens, and by teens, with bipolar disorder.
Intense Minds: Through the Eyes of Young People with Bipolar Disorder by Tracy Anglada
Mind Race: The First Hand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Bipolar Disorder by Patrick E. Jamieson with Moira A. Rynn
Detour: My Bipolar Trip Through 4-D by Lizzie Simon
The Bipolar Teen by David J. Miklowitz and Elizabeth George
Mommy, I'm Still In Here by Kate McLaughlin
New Hope for Children and Teens with Bipolar Disorder by Boris Birmaher, M.D.
If Your Adolescent Has Depression or Bipolar Disorder by Dwight L. Evans, M.D., and Linda Wasmer Andrews
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison