The author has over forty years of professional experience and expertise with patients diagnosed with serious mental illnesses, especially bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenia The writing is non-technical, user-friendly, and easy-to-understand. The process of mental illness recovery has many important characteristics/qualities in common with addiction recovery. Many people have co-occurring addiction and mental illness disorders Workbook has been used as part of the treatment process for veterans with mental illness at the Sheridan, WY VA Medical Center as well as several other VA facilities around the US Workbook can be used by individuals, as well as treatment providers