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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 3 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | The Bipolar Advantage is about recognizing all of the aspects of the bipolar condition. Wootton readily admits that "Advantage" is not the typical interpretation of bipolar. Based on his Bipolar in Order Seminar that he has developed over the past two years, it focuses on the positive approach to the bipolar condition. It is about coming to an acceptance of yourself while striving to become a better person. Learning to use Introspection to become aware of who you REALLY are and learning to change your habits in order to accentuate the positive aspects of the bipolar condition while minimizing the negative. Turning bipolar into an advantage is accomplished by creating a vision of who you want to be and putting together a plan to follow that will get you there; as is done by every successful business in the world. As a successful professional and someone who was misdiagnosed for years, Wootton has personally experienced the good and the bad of this condition. Leading a DBSA group and teaching the Bipolar in Order seminar has put Wootton in touch with the personal stories of many bipolar people and their families. This positive approach with tools and skills for improving life will be of help to everyone, both those with bipolar and those who love and support them. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Tom Wootton | | Paperback: | 200 pages | | Publisher: | Bipolar Advantage | | Publication Date: | October 10, 2005 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0977442306 | | Product Width: | 151.5 centimeters | | Product Height: | 226.5 centimeters | | Product Weight: | 0.68 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.82 inches | | Package Width: | 5.98 inches | | Package Height: | 0.71 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.66 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 54 reviews |
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158 of 170 found the following review helpful:
 I'd have given it no stars, but Amazon won't let me. Apr 25, 2006
By John Morrish
Having enjoyed the "bipolar advantage" for more than 25 years now, I'm always looking for a positive slant on this nasty, destructive, incurable condition. Unfortunately, it is not to be found in this worthless book.
I've read a lot of self-help over the years, and this is the worst yet. Tom Wootton seems to have a very idiosyncratic form of manic-depression, to use the older, less euphemistic term. Apart from anything else, he seems to think you can use the "advantages" of mania - accelerated thoughts, boundless energy, wild imagination - by switching it on and off like electricity. Anyone who is really living with it will know it doesn't work like that.
For instance, he says mania will make you a great brainstormer. Possibly, but only if you happen to be brainstorming in the brief moment between the sudden onset of all that energy and the arrival of a man in a white coat with a syringe full of something to knock you out.
I suspect that what Wootton really suffers from is rampant egomania. At one point, he tells us he is so good at sex - and he's very interested in sex - that he can render his lovers (victims?) unconscious. Then there is his fascinating resum?: "prostitute, drug dealer, factory worker, traveling waiter, health club manager, corporate vice president, male stripper, truck driver, monk, teacher, public speaker, trade show hawker, car salesman, body builder, computer programmer, realtor, creative director, tech guru, porn star, this list goes on and on".
And so does he...
Those of us whose aspirations run more towards a normal career and a happy family life would do better to look elsewhere for guidance. The only thing I agreed with in 195 pages of drivel is the value of meditation, and his account of it is so sketchy and bizarre as to be seriously misleading.
At the end, he tells us that he wrote most of the book in six days. I'm surprised it took him so long.
On a more positive note, the best book I have read on the subject is Overcoming Mood Swings by Jan Scott. It's a self-help book based on cognitive behavioural therapy, and it will help you manage your condition rather than engaging in fruitless and extravagant fantasising about it.
41 of 43 found the following review helpful:
Gutsy but Too Brief Mar 27, 2006
By Phyllis Le Chat
"Le Chat"
While this book does offer some unique insight into the galaxy of activities and emotions of bipolar people such as myself, it seemed more of a rough outline than a fully fleshed approach to coping with this spasmodic condition of the mind. The author does offer his own life as a revelation to both those diagnosed with, living with, and wondering about this condition. He begins to offer real glimmers of information about how creativity, sex, drugs, verbal abuse, and work are entertwined with bipolar behaviors and lifestyles; the importance of learning coping skills, adapting a healthy weight and exercise program, and getting and listening to a psychiatrist, doing your own research and asking questions about medications, and finding a counselor you can trust and be honest with. Wootton talks about the importance of finding a spiritual path, meditation, setting goals and prioritizing, and gives very helpful, specific activities and descriptions of what all of these suggestions feel like when they're working for you. I've read a lot of books on bipolar "disorder" written by doctors, researchers, other bipolars, and laypeople, and this is one of the most directly useful articulations of how this feels, what it looks like, and what can be accomplished with self awareness, education, introspection, and a non-judgemental attitude towards oneself and others. I would give a higher rating, but just felt the book was too superficial in too many places - I wanted Mr. Wootton to stop skimming over information because it really verges on being spectacular. There is a lot more that could have been said, for example, to explain creativity, passion vs. skill, and how to see to it that our infinite ideas materialize. This is one of the crucial dilemmas of my life. I felt really excited when I read many portions of this book as it was the first time I knew that someone was onto the same threads of thought I have been on and had actually been able to coalesce these thoughts into action. He could have written a book on almost every chapter heading! The point, I suppose, is that he was able to write this book at all, write well, and offer so much of himself to scrutiny.
40 of 49 found the following review helpful:
The Bipolar Advantaqge May 16, 2006
By C. Firth
I wanted to like this book, ordering it because it had many good reviews. It seemed Tom was manic most of the time in the book and was blessed with taking only lithium. Unfortunately, there are many bipolars who have depression as their dominant mood and have to take 3 psychotropic drugs.If this were Tom's experience, he would have more realistic view of the disease and his advise would be more useful to me.
He is not expert about the disorder and along with spotty research, the book is mainly his ego trip.
I read some and skimmed some but became bored with the book- mostly because I was weary of his bragging and ranting . Save your money and read the intelligent books by Kate Jamison- a bipolar who knows how to write well.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Should be called "The Tom Wootten Advantage" Apr 11, 2011
By Dustin
This is the worst book I've ever read. So bad it inspired me to write my first review. I have bipolar I, and I do believe it has it's advantages. But that does not save this book.
This book is a poorly organized autobiography of a man with extreme delusions of grandeur. Perhaps he isn't bipolar at all, just an extreme narcissist with depression, anger issues and LSD flashbacks. The only reason I continued reading is because I could relate to the guy... But I really don't want to.
It begins with an introduction on how great the author is. Then there is a couple chapters explaining bipolar disorder in the same way a 5 page introduction pamphlet on the topic would. Then there's 8 chapters on how awesome the author is. Throw in a few basic chapters about meditation, diet and exercise (Tom used to be a stripper so he knows everything there is to know about diet and exercise) that are not even on topic... He even admits that meditation is a actually a disadvantage to bipolar people, but since it's something he knows a little about (being an enlightened monk and all) it deserves it's own chapter in his autobiography (this book). Wrap it up with a few chapters on how great the author is and how amazing he is for writing this horrible joke book in 6 days. End with a chapter thanking himself, and you have this book.
Essentially the only bipolar advantage he mentions is creativity and it's forms. Let's get a show of hands of who needs to read this book to find out that bipolar people are blessed with creativity. He doesn't even follow this basic assessment with factual examples like Kay Redfeild Jamison does, and he isn't a quarter of her genius, even though he spends an entire book trying to prove he is. She wrote an autobiography and hardly even mentions her amazing brain even though she has a doctorate to back it up!
Instead of empowering me, this book made me fear my illness. I don't want to be anything like this lunatic, but I'm afraid I am.
I dare anyone that gave this book 5 stars to re-read it a couple times. It's so arrogantly awkward it overwhelmed ME with an uncomfortable feeling of embarrassment towards the author for the entire 4 hours I spent learning how incredibly great he is!
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Better than I thought Possible Jul 29, 2007
By lbriteyes
This book not only explains what it means to have bipolar disorder, it shows positive ways of dealing with it. Whether you HAVE bipolar disorder, or simply love someone with it, this book is a must read. My family and I read parts of the book outloud so we could share some of the information provided and how to help deal with the symptoms and the disorder itself. Remember, Tom, you are a person who has bipolar disorder. You are not bipolar. You have it. It does not have you. Thank you so much for sharing part of your life with us. You truly understand our plight and are dealing with it well. You book has been a godsend. Linda
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