Bipolar IN Order

Notice it earlier.
Respond better.

Bipolar IN Order helps people notice their states earlier, understand how their environment shapes them, and take ownership of their behaviors, including which tools to use and when.

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Since 2003Refined through thousands of real-world interactions
Tufts UniversityStudied
PCORIReviewed
Yale · BerkeleyEndorsed by researchers at Yale, UC Berkeley, Maastricht and Barcelona
The approach

Not about eliminating symptoms. About knowing your states.

Users build personalized profiles of their environments, behaviors, comfort zones, and tools — creating a self-management system specific to them. The program works alongside clinical care, not as a replacement for medication or therapy.

Almost everything in the program is paired. Mania and depression have separate tool selections, environment ratings, timeline settings, and comfort zone thresholds. This reflects that bipolar symptoms are directional — what helps during depression may not help during mania, and vice versa.

Bipolar IN Order spectrum: Crisis, Managed, Recovery, Freedom, Stability, Self-Mastery
From crisis to self-mastery
How it works

Three things you learn to do.

1

Understand your states

Learn to observe and identify what you experience in different mental and emotional states, without judgment.

2

Define your comfort zone

Establish personal thresholds for what you can handle while still functioning. Everyone's comfort zone is different.

3

Build your tools

Develop a personalized set of strategies at three levels: simple, stronger, and extreme, so you are always prepared.

Inside the program

Thirty seconds a day. Patterns you can see.

Daily check-in
Daily check-ins

A 30-second check-in

A 30-second daily check-in captures mental state, environment, behavior, and tool usage. Over time, this builds the dataset that drives reports and pattern recognition.

Graduated timeline
Graduated timelines

A stepped response, before things escalate

When check-in data shows a trend outside the comfort zone, the program walks the user through a stepped response — starting with awareness, progressing to stronger tools when needed.

Shareable reports
Reports you control

You decide who sees what

Users can share their check-in data, tool usage, AI coaching conversations, and reports with therapists, doctors, family, or researchers — choosing exactly what each person can and cannot see. A therapist might get the clinical report and tools data. A spouse might see only the weekly summary. The user decides, and can revoke access at any time. All access is logged for HIPAA compliance.

“Bipolar In Order provides the essential message that symptom reduction or elimination is far from the main goal of adaptation and intervention. Sure to challenge traditional thinking, this important work is integrative and wise.”
Stephen P. Henshaw, PhD · Professor and Chair, Dept of Psychology, UC Berkeley
Tom Wootton, founder of Bipolar IN Order
Built from the inside out

Meet Tom Wootton.

Tom Wootton is the founder of Bipolar IN Order and author of The Bipolar Advantage, The Depression Advantage, and Bipolar IN Order. He has lived with bipolar disorder for decades and built this program from the inside out with the help of thousands of fellow patients, doctors, therapists, and family members.

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Know your states. Respond earlier.

Fewer crises, better day-to-day functioning, and real self-management.

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