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Lets Talk Bipolar - by Bipolar UK

1.04 Professor Ian Jones, Bipolar in the Perinatal and postpartum seasons of life, Psychoeducation services and how to live a good life whilst living with Bipolar Disorder

My guest for this episode of Let's Talk Bipolar by @bipolar_uk, is Professor Ian Jones, a Professor of Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist for the NHS.

Professor Ian Jones spent a number of years listening, as part of a Bipolar study, to those living with Bipolar and they picked up on a recurring clue that the process of choosing to carry a baby could be a huge trigger for the onset of Bipolar or the beginning of a period of being very unwell with Bipolar.

We talk about his area of speciality in perinatal & postpartum care and treatment for those living with Bipolar Disorder. In current day medicine professionals will be looking to support those wishing to carry a baby and how the risk of becoming unwell can be managed and supported through this season in life.

Ian Jones and his colleagues are running a Psycho education programme, which consists of 10 sessions in a peer group environment. The sessions cover; What is Bipolar? What do the labels mean? What causes Bipolar disorder? What are the treatments and understanding medications and treatments? self-management, monitoring, lifestyle and sleep patterns, which helps those living with Bipolar to learn how to live their best life whilst living with Bipolar.

Professor Ian Jones also talks us through what Bipolar is and some of the terminology that is used in the conversation of Bipolar. We talk about labels and diagnosis and how this can be helpful and unhelpful. Treating the patient as an individual in an ever-changing landscape and how it is essential that professionals should be re-visiting our diagnosis and reviewing regularly. We should be asking what is the evidence that this is still the most true and helpful diagnosis for the patient to continue to move forward in the best way.

If you would like to take part in research or future programmes you can get in contact here:

For our NCMH study:

https://www.ncmh.info/help-with-research/online-study/

For BDRN including accessing True Colours and pregnancy study

http://bdrn.org

Professor Ian Jones:

Graduating from St Georges Hospital Medical School, London, I trained in general medicine and psychiatry in South Wales and on obtaining membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists began research training in the Neuropsychiatric Genetics Group at Cardiff University. I was awarded a Wellcome Trust Training Fellowship to study the genetics of Postpartum Psychosis in Birmingham and spent a year as a visiting research fellow at the Medical College of Virginia, USA. Prior to my appointment in Cardiff I was Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham.
My main research interest is the study of affective disorders in general and Postpartum Psychosis in particular. I have authored or co-authored over 300 publications and book chapters in the fields of mood disorder and perinatal psychiatry.


My main clinical interest is developing services to identify women at risk of severe postpartum episodes and developing psychoeducation approaches for bipolar disorder.


I am Trustee and founding Chair of Action on Postpartum Psychosis and Trustee of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance.


In 2010 I was awarded the Marce Medal for my research on Postpartum Psychosis and in 2013 was named the Academic Researcher of the year at the RCPsych Awards. In 2014 BEPC, the psychoeducation service I direct, received the British Medical Journal (BMJ) award for Innovation in Medicine.

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