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When bipolar disorder afflicts the person you love, you suffer too. How have other couples learned to manage the relationship strains caused by this illness? What can you do to provide your partner with truly helpful nurturance and support? No one cares more deeply about these questions than Dr. Cynthia Last, a highly regarded therapist/researcher who also has bipolar disorder.

If you are in the midst of depression, you may worry that you aren't good enough for your partner, or become irritable around them. You may even push them away when you feel like your emotions are beyond your control. In addition, your sense of intimacy may diminish, and your sex life may fizzle as a result of fatigue, medications and feeling disconnected from your partner. The hard truth is that feelings of isolation, worthlessness, and tiredness can all take a hefty toll on your love life. But you don't have to let depression be the demise of your relationship.

An honest and compelling memoir, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet is Merri Lisa Johnson’s account of her borderline personality disorder and how it has affected her life and relationships. Johnson describes the feeling of "bleeding out" unable to tell where she stopped and where her partner began. A self-confessed "psycho girlfriend," she was influenced by many emotional factors from her past. She recalls her path through a dysfunctional, destructive relationship, while recounting the experiences that brought her to her breaking point.

Was darf ich beim Sex? Wie sollte ich mich beim ersten Date verhalten? Wo beginnt Untreue? Sonja Dennig und Marcel Althaus sind als Sonny Loops und MarcelScorpion das Traumpaar der deutschen YouTube-Szene. Im Nachfolger zu Marcel Althaus' Glücksratgeber und SPIEGEL-Bestseller Try Hard behandeln sie nun die spannendste Frage, die sich jeder junge Mensch irgendwann stellt: Wie führe ich eine dauerhaft glückliche Beziehung? Marcel und Sonny geben dabei intime Einblicke in ihre eigene Beziehung. Sie zeigen, welche Fehler sie in der Vergangenheit gemacht haben.

In September 2002, Ken left his home and drove to the Grand Canyon to kill himself. The only life he'd ever known was little more than a shambles. He'd lost his wife and now he realized that he really couldn't live without her. His choices were to either continue facing it with self-destruction, drugs, and booze, or...a running start and a jump over the edge to end it all. Ken's story is filled with dysfunctional families, love found and lost, breakups, breakdowns, and remarkable hope. It's the true story of a man without love and too destroyed to think he deserves love.

Janet Ellis, founder and CEO of Janet’s Planets of Empowerment, shares the process she herself has followed to break free of the dysfunction that ruled the early years of her life. She is living proof that you, too, can come out on the other side of depression, sadness, and loneliness to live the life of joy and have the freedom you have longed for.