Still Here: A Bipolar Survival Manual

Millions of people are diagnosed with bipolar disorder every year. Most leave with a prescription, a pamphlet, and more questions than answers.

Almost none of them are given a plan for how to actually live with it.

Still Here is that plan.

Adam Flesner combines a master’s degree in exercise and nutrition science, a decade of living with bipolar disorder, and multiple hospitalizations to write the book he needed when everything fell apart.

This is not theory from a distance. It's a field-tested approach built from experience, failure, recovery, and rebuilding.

Part memoir. Part evidence-based field guide. Part honest reflection on faith, suffering, and what actually helps.

Inside you’ll learn:

∙ What bipolar disorder is doing in the brain and why that changes how you respond to it

∙ A sleep and circadian rhythm protocol built specifically for a bipolar nervous system

∙ Which supplements help, which do nothing, and which can quietly make things worse

∙ A relapse prevention system built from years of trial, error, and refinement

∙ How to think about faith when your brain doesn't cooperate — and why that tension doesn't mean you're broken

∙ Practical tools, scripts, and frameworks you can actually use when things start slipping

This is not a book about managing symptoms.

It's about building a life with enough structure to contain the illness, enough clarity to face it, and enough purpose to keep going.

This book is for:

∙ The person who just got diagnosed and feels like their identity has collapsed overnight

∙ The one who has been managing for years and still feels like they’re improvising

∙ The high-functioning achiever who looks fine on the outside and falls apart in private

∙ The family member trying to understand what they’re watching

∙ Anyone who has wondered if survival is the best it's ever going to get

There is a way to live with this that is stable, meaningful, and honest.

This book shows you how.