Membership

Understanding The Challenge of Living With Bipolar Disorder

When students first come into our program, they often talk about feeling burned out from years of facing Bipolar Disorder. Years of difficulty and overwhelm that they describe as taking over their lives and getting in the way of their hopes and dreams. They describe...

Difficulty in making sense of their diagnosis.
Overwhelm during manic and depressive episodes.
Broken relationships.
Inability to work.
Hard times in finding an appropriate treatment method.
Inability to function.
Horrible side effects from invasive treatment methods.
Discomfort in the use and dependance of invasive tools.
Living in a state of anxiety over future episodes.
Inability to communicate clearly with doctors and therapists.
Confusion and lack of understanding about thriving with the condition.
Financial depletion and stress from the burden of excessive medical related expenses spent on various treatment methods such as medicine, therapy, frequent doctor visits, hospitalizations and treatment facilities.
Frustration with not yet finding the one thing that will make the condition manageable or go away completely.

Who We Are

Since 2003, the program has undergone major updates and changes through the years to make it as effective as possible in bringing out the best results for Bipolar and Depression. In spite of all the implemented changes, the one thing that remains true is the core principle of challenging the pervasive attitudes about bipolar and depression. To date, we have helped more than 150,000 people.

Through the Bipolar & Depression Outcomes Research Institute Online Membership Program, students learn about an integrative approach that focuses on bringing about the best possible outcomes for mental conditions. The approach does not ask students to drop whatever tools they are currently employing to manage their condition. Nor does it suggest the use of any one method over all others. Instead, we guide students to find what works best for them, with the goal of thriving as the primary aim that eventually unfolds into the achievement of full functionality.

A Community Focused on
Changing The Lives of Thousands

The focus of the Bipolar & Depression Outcomes Research Institute Online Membership Program is to guide and help its members achieve the best results possible for Bipolar and Depression. People from all over the world who are facing Bipolar Disorder come into the membership program with confusion, frustration, and exhaustion from having tried endless treatment methods to no avail. They often speak of the relentless efforts on their part to try to keep bipolar and depression from ruining their lives and the constant dissappointment from not yet finding a solution that works for them.

What We Teach

We hold an open invitation to anyone currently facing Bipolar or Depression who seek to work on creating a better life for themselves and those around them. The courses we offer teach students to function fully instead of get overwhelmed and paralyzed every time mania or depression return. The online membership structure provides an active and supportive learning environment to all participants.

The main feature of the online membership is the Bipolar IN Order Course. Once finished with the Bipolar IN Order course, members also get unrestricted access to supplemental classes that are available for them to take on demand. Some of the most popular courses included are:

What To Do When You Are Feeling Overwhelmed
Relationships That Work
Meditation Techniques For Bipolar and Depression
Building Your Professional And Home Support Team
Alternative Treatment Options For Bipolar and Depression
Acceptance
How To Thrive During Travel With Bipolar and Depression
Challenging Definitions
The Depression Advantage Book Course
And Many More...

Each course has recorded video lessons, reading lessons, and downloadable and printable PDF files with simple and effective written exercises used to help students develop personalized step-by-step plans to achieve full functionality.

Current students of the program often take their written plans to doctors and therapists, who fully endorse their patient's goals of functionality towards Bipolar IN Order.

Learn How...

To separate the state feelings from your reactions to them.

To function at the highest level regardless of your mood state

To recognize the sweet spot where you can be the most productive

To use the least costly tools to reduce symptoms when needed.

To find the best opportunities for taking advantage of your state.

To turn your states from a disorder to an advantage.

To monitor your states without being obsessed over them.

To create a realistic plan for continuous and safe progress.

To develop loving and lasting intimate relationships.

To thrive in your professional life using bipolar to your advantage.

To find a team of experts that will work for and with you.

To figure out which treatment options work best for you.

To create an environment that supports your condition.

A Mother's Point of View

A Heart-Felt Video of a Mother Sharing Her Family's Struggle With Depression.

Results Worth Striving For

Becky's Story of Struggle and Success in Facing Bipolar

Better Intimate Relationships

Better Functionality in All Environments

Measurable Progress

Enhanced Productivity

Better Functionality in all States

Reduction or Elimination of Crisis and Hospitalizations

More Effective Communication With Doctors and Family

Getting Out From Under That Overwhelmed Feeling

Learning About The Strengths and Advantages of Living with Bipolar

Suzanne Kronisch Loves Bipolar IN Order

I love Tom Wootton. His work has changed everything for me. I was able to train for two marathons while deeply depressed with Tom's support and non-traditional point of view. Where previously I would have convinced myself that my ability to complete such a feat was state-dependent. Without Bipolar In Order I might've just said 'I can't do it' and dropped out. Instead, I continued to train regardless of how I felt and not only completed the events but beat my previous time by a longshot. For me the true victory was that I was able to do it at all.

Suzanne Kronisch

I can't think of a more important ingredient to living with bipolar disorder or any mental health difficulty.

Tom's message-and approach-is a welcome antidote to many, popular ideas about mental illness. He integrates sound, evidence-based tools (such as self-awareness, self-care, and medication) with an especially humane perspective. Too often, in having to accept their condition, people end up feeling pathologized - reduced from a full person to a label. But Tom looks beyond the diagnosis to help people embrace - and accept - the best parts of who they are, instead of reflexively dismissing their feelings and experiences as a simple manifestation of illness. I can't think of a more important ingredient to living with bipolar disorder or any mental health difficulty.

Craig Malkin, PhD
Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School

This is truly the best thing I have done for myself!

This is truly the best thing I have done for myself! After years of therapy, that only helped a little, I now have tools and a whole new way to look at my life. I highly recommend this program!

Jacqui Sober Rapp

This course of study has changed my life in many positive ways.

This course of study has changed my life in many positive ways. I have new tools at my disposal to assist me in being comfortable with myself - no matter where I am at in my cycling... I give this my personal recommendation!!!!

Kim Heye

This course changed my life.

This course changed my life. We are responsible for our actions no matter how our mental and physical disorders challenge us. Tom offers a way to learn the subtle changes in our feelings so that we can be responsible and feel good about it. My therapist and psychiatrist wholeheartedly endorsed my participation. I would invite people to join Tom on this journey. It is well worth your time.

Ann M. Zenk

My daughter took the course...

Because my daughter took the course and shared with me I know more about how to talk the language of "in order" instead of disorder.

Melissa Vandeveer