100 Ways to Look Up When Everything Looks Down

For those who know what mental illness looks like close-up, an easily digestible self-help book of 100 mental health wellness tips born from the authors’ lived experiences managing bipolar depression.

100 pages. 100 ways to feel better.

Most people know someone struggling with their mental health; in fact, more than one in five adults in the US live with a mental illness. 100 Ways to Look Up When Everything Looks Down is for this group—from those who are able to lead a mostly functional life to those debilitated so severely by their condition that they cannot get out of bed.

Having lived with bipolar disorder for decades, Denise Krischke and Susan Eisner know what it’s like to feel desperate for a solution—for release—and over the years, they’ve developed strategies for how to help themselves feel better, even at the lowest points of the depressive phase. Here, in the hopes that their lived experience will help ease others’ pain, they share 100 of those strategies in the simplest way possible: One idea per page, for 100 pages. Accessible even to those who are battling to make it through the day.

If you suffer from bipolar, or from any form of depression, it’s not your fault. Chemistry, not character, is the cause of your symptoms—and there are ways to manage it. 100 Ways.