Yes, this is an ideal approach. It is so unfortunate though that many family and friends do the exact opposite to all this. They would rather sit with the stigma, ignorance and actual abuse that is the approach of so many to a family member or friend with mental illness, including Bipolar. And thus the terrible rejection and profound isolation that many of us experience.

I actually read quickly through the information because it is so painful to me, the way I have been rejected and marginalised by family and friends due to an illness I did not bring on myself and for which I work at a rate of 100% in psychiatry and psychology. I have offered all the education and have asked for the level of support reflected in your material, but to no avail. That, though does not diminish what you have proposed here and I hope that it can be passed onto family and friends of people with Bipolar, or taken up with those family and friends who avail themselves of this material in this thread.