Psychotherapy and Bipolar Disorder

Psychotherapyused with a medication treatment plan for mental health issues sometimes proves to be beneficial for Bipolars. There are many techniques of psychotherapy like relationship building, simple dialogue, learning communication and behaviors that work to improve bipolar living and help them to deal with relationships.
Spoken conversation is the most popular psychotherapy. But some also use written, therapeutic touch, art, and other nonverbal communicatiom. Psychotherapy is between a trained therapist and one or more patients. There are specialized psychotherapy techniques for bipolar disorder. Their benefit is increased when used in with medications.
One type of psychotherapy is where the psychologist meets with the patient regularly over a certain period. During sessions the discussions are the patient’s personal experience as well as signs of manic and depressive episodes in the past and any events leading up to them. This can be warning signs should these symptoms reappear. The patient can keep a journal on the disorder, if symptoms appear regularly. This form of psychotherapy is very effective for understanding the triggers and symptoms of bipolar disorder and helps in educating the patient about the disorder.
Psychoeducation is educating a person with goals of treatment and rehabilitation. learning about their problem, how to treat it and how to recognize signs of relapse so they can seek treatment before heir problem worsens or recurs. The goal is teaching Bipolar disorder basics, triggering factors, symptoms of onset , forms of treatment, risks associated with treatment
This helps the patient understand the disorder and helps them avoid things or situations which may aggravate it.
Cognitive therapy works on the distorted thoughts and stimuli that can cause emotional stres, which is believed to cause episodes. This type of therapy has been researched and is known to be an effective in bipolar disorder treatment. It is effective in patients who experience disruptive negative thoughts. The patient recognizes thought distortions and techniques for correcting them.
The treatment aims at helping the patient to deal with the thoughts that cause the patient stress and lead to relapses. The patient and therapist concentrate on the negative thoughts, disruptive assumptions and stressful inferences. The patient learns check their thoughts and recognize the reality of the situation.
Another treatment which stresses maintaining a day to day schedule and stability in personal relationships. Social Rhythm is believes that disruptions in daily routines and problems in interpersonal relationships can cause a recurrence of the manic and depressive episodes of bipolar disorder.
Patients understand how social relationships and roles are affected by their routines and that their moods can be affected by changes in these routines. The therapist helps the patiet see what changes cause relapses and teaches the patient how to manage stressful events and maintain positive relationships.
Family Focused Therapy focuses on family and relationships and how they contribute to changes in bipolar disorder. This treatment is used to identify problems and conflicts in the family circle that contribute to stress and problems in the family that occur because of the illness. They teach the family how to resolve them. All family members learn about the illness, treatment and support resources.