The Bipolar Clock: Stabilize Mood by Resetting Your Body Clock | Dr. Holly Swartz | #talkBD EP 40 🌓 - Blog

Award-winning researcher Dr. Holly Swartz breaks down the “bipolar clock”, and proposes a fresh approach to take charge of your bipolar symptoms by timing your light exposure, temperature, body position, eating, and social contact. Dr. Swartz also shares the science behind social rhythm therapy (SRT) and Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT) in helping to reset your biological body clock and take charge of your bipolar symptoms.

Hosted by Dr. Erin Michalak.

Chapters and Timestamps

00:00 Introduction
00:13 About Dr. Holly Swartz
04:00 Circadian Rhythms Are Key for Bipolar Disorder
08:37 Advantages of Having a “Bipolar Clock”?
11:42 Light Disruptions, Season Changes, Blue Light
16:51 Create Consistent Routines
20:51 Time Your Eating, Body Position, Social Contact, Temperature
29:08 Track Your Social Rhythm Metric (SRM)
30:25 Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT)
33:33 Social Rhythm Therapy Workbook for Bipolar Disorder
36:00 Strive for a Supranormal Routine

Dr. Holly A. Swartz is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and President of the International Society of Bipolar Disorders (ISBD). She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College, medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed her psychiatric residency training at New York Hospital / Cornell University School of Medicine. Dr. Swartz’s research focuses on understanding and optimizing treatments for mood disorders. She is well known for her work evaluating Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) and Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT) as treatments for depression and bipolar disorder. Her research focuses on the role of IPSRT and pharmacotherapy in the management of bipolar II depression and IPT in the management of maternal depression. She is engaged in collaborative projects to develop computational frameworks to model dyadic interpersonal behaviors in relation to psychotherapy process and outcomes and to understand neural correlates of change in chronotherapeutic behavioral interventions. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.

Book Giveaway!

We’re giving away 2 copies of “The Social Rhythm Therapy Workbook for Bipolar Disorder”

To mark the launch of Dr. Holly Swartz’s new book, we’d like to send 2 physical copies of “The Social Rhythm Therapy Workbook for Bipolar Disorder” to talkBD podcast supporters anywhere in the world! Here’s how to enter the giveaway:

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Winners will be picked at random and contacted on April 19, 2024!

If you would like to enter the giveaway privately without making a public comment, send us an email at team@talkBD.live with the subject “Book Giveaway”.

“The Social Rhythm Therapy Workbook for Bipolar Disorder: Stabilize Your Circadian Rhythms to Reduce Stress, Manage Moods, and Prevent Future Episodes” is also available on Amazon. The book is published by New Harbinger Publications. For more information, click here