Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can help adjust responses to anxiety and potentially lower doses of bipolar disorder medications.

“Now, earlier I said borderline personality disorder has all these triggers and triggered elements from the external environment, whereas bipolar disorder does not. And that's still true, but it is the case that somebody with bipolar can have worse symptoms if life conditions get worse or more stressful. So cognitive behavioral therapy, I mean the discussion about and sometimes the direct exposure to anxiety provoking elements of life can be very helpful for adjusting the responses to those otherwise triggering events and sometimes making the drug treatments more effective even at lower doses.”