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Bipolar disorder is a disabling psychiatric illness with a high rate of recurrence, persistent symptoms, and impairment in functioning. The shift from institutional care to community-based care has resulted in the transferring of day-to-day care of patients to their family members, resulting in a psychosocial burden over the caregivers. Hence, Bipolar disorder not only affects the patient but also has a huge impact on the lives of the persons caring for them. This study has been undertaken to correlate Expressed Emotions among caregivers of patients with Bipolar Disorder for which cross-sectional study was conducted at a tertiary care teaching hospital in north India. The study sample comprised of 100 patients with BD. Convenient sampling was used for the selection of patients with Bipolar disorder and their caregivers and statistical analysis. Bivariate and Multivariate analysis analysis was used. The result of the present study indicate that higher use of maladaptive coping has a significant impact on the Expressed Emotion. Accordingly, psychosocial interventions need to focus on caregivers to reduce Effective Emotion.