Teach children and adults to manage the illness comprehensively.

You may be thinking, "Can I actually reduce my bipolar disorder symptoms by half or more? Can I really get my life back after a serious episode? Can I stop the hold that bipolar disorder has on my life? Is that possible?" The answer is yes. My name is Julie Fast and I got my life back after over 15 years of severe bipolar disorder symptoms when I created and started to use the Health Cards Treatment System for Bipolar Disorder.

Over 3000 copies of the Health Cards have been sold in the last few years. I also received two book deals and was able to write the books by using the Health Cards to stay well enough to finish the projects. (My first book, Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner was published in 2004. The second book, The Health Smart Bipolar Disorder Personal Care Organizer will be published in the fall of 2005.)

Because of the Health Cards treatment system, I was able to get my life back after over 15 years of severe bipolar disorder symptoms. The Health Cards help all people with bipolar disorder find a way to manage the illness so that it no longer takes over and ruins lives. They also provide an effective treatment tool for friends, family, teachers, doctors, social workers and therapists who love or work with someone who has bipolar disorder.

The Health Cards System can be used by children and adults and teaches people with bipolar disorder how to ask for help and involve friends and family members in the healing process. Medications really do make a difference, but there are often many problems related to bipolar disorder that medications do not solve. The Health Cards System offers a comprehensive solution to these problems. The cards work well with medications and are especially effective for people who do not have an optimum response to medications or who are drug resistant like myself.

Julie Fast's health card system for people with bipolar disorder has helped save my life. For the first time since I was diagnosed with the illness in 1993, I don't feel isolated and hopeless, or like I'm thrashing around helplessly in a fog of mental illness. By pinpointing the things I do and say when I'm manic or depressed, I'm able to look at my illness with new eyes and understand myself better.