Your questions, answered

Bipolar Advantage teaches self-management for bipolar disorder. You learn to spot your states sooner, see how your surroundings affect you, and own your behaviors, including which tools you reach for and when. You act before things build. The result: fewer crises, better days, and self-management that is truly yours.

No. Bipolar Advantage is education in self-management. It is not therapy, not medication and not a substitute for clinical care. Many people use it alongside the treatment they already have; others use it as a structured path for their own growth. Either way it works with your care team, not instead of it.

Bipolar Advantage has been developed continuously since 2003. It began as in-person workshops and has become a fully digital, standardized program. It has been studied at Tufts University, reviewed by PCORI, and endorsed by researchers at Yale, UC Berkeley, Maastricht University and the University of Barcelona.

You build a personal picture of your environments, behaviors, comfort zones and tools, and that picture becomes a self-management system made for you. It works alongside your doctor and therapist, never in place of medication or therapy.

Once a day you spend about 30 seconds noting your state, your surroundings, your behavior and the tools you used. Those check-ins add up to the record behind your reports and the patterns you start to see.

The program gives you a library of tools sorted by strength, from simple everyday steps to stronger responses for more intense states. You choose the ones that work for you, see which ones keep you IN Order, and build your own toolbox as you go. Each day's check-in brings tool suggestions that fit your current state and comfort zone.

An AI coach that helps you reflect, strengthens your self-awareness and helps you spot your patterns. It coaches; it does not give clinical advice.

You can share your check-ins, tool use, AI coaching conversations and reports with your therapist, doctor, family or researchers, and you set exactly what each person can see. Your therapist might see the clinical report and tools data while your spouse sees only the weekly summary. You stay in control and can take access away at any time. Every view is logged for HIPAA compliance.

Your data is protected by a HIPAA-compliant design: passwords stored with bcrypt hashing, two-factor sign-in (TOTP), rotating CSRF tokens, prepared database statements, limits on login attempts and Cloudflare Turnstile checks against bots. Configuration files sit outside the web root. Separate roles keep user, partner admin and system admin access apart, and every sign-in and every data access is recorded in an audit log.

Yes. Anyone who wants to understand their mental states can use it, with or without a formal diagnosis. People who support someone with bipolar disorder use it too.

The program is $29.95/month on a monthly plan or $19.95/month on an annual plan ($239.40/year).

Bipolar Advantage is not designed for use during active crisis. If you are in danger or need immediate help, contact 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), text HOME to 741741 (Crisis Text Line), or call your local emergency services. The program's timeline system is designed to help you respond before things reach crisis — but if you are already there, reach out to a professional first.