Maintenance therapy for bipolar disorder is generally a long process. The role of family management: 1. Good family management can reduce the recurrence of the patient’s condition; 2. Good family management can save limited health resources (reduced morbidity and relapse rates); 3. Good family management can not only reduce the family’s financial burden, but also promote the recovery of the patient’s social function and work ability; 4. Good family management can promote the patient’s comprehensive physical, psychological and social recovery The family can help the patient to recover from the disease. Then as a family member how should we help the patient to get through the hard times together? 1.Supervise patients to maintain the use of medication; 2.Observation of the condition: dynamic observation of the patient’s sleep, awareness of the disease and self-care ability and other changes, once the patient’s condition is found to fluctuate the first time to contact with the doctor to see if the need to adjust the treatment plan; 3.Psychological support: to guide the patient’s correct understanding of the disease, the ability to correctly recognize that the bipolar disorder is controllable and curable, to remove the disease’s sense of shame, and to strengthen the patient’s belief in this 4, life care: assist or help patients to take care of their lives; 5, functional exercise: family members should encourage and support patients to participate in social activities with a positive and optimistic attitude to help patients return to society as soon as possible.