Bipolar buttheads ping.
I am not sure to be happy or sad about this.
How convenient. Now they can medicate the bad behavior and the kid has an excuse to be a brat. Being diagnosed bi-polar must mean more excuses and exemptions than being tagged with ADDHD.
The number of vaccinations jumps also.
I guess I’m of two minds regarding this report.
I am bipolar, a large galoot, and I need nothing stronger than simple Lithium Carbonate to adequately manage my condition: it is the oldest, simplest, and probably the most effective treatment for bipolar disorder known to Mankind.
I am stunned they would even be trying to diagnose wee kids with bipolar disorder. I do not know how they would even begin to do so. And I am at a loss to understand why they would need strong pharmaceuticals. Of course, I’m not a doctor, I’m just a patient.
I wonder how much prompting is coming from the parents, who may be wanting to medicate a naughty-but-otherwise-healthy child into behaving itself? I dunno, but I gotta wonder.
Bipolar is a serious not laughable disease. My brother in laws grandmother was bipolar and killed herself. My BIL’s mother has just the past couple months attempted suicide twice making her total attempts about 7 or so. It is so hard for my sister and her family.
On that note children being bipolar is possible and does happen, but I do believe the parents of these children are responsible in allowing bad behavior. They do not discipline them and encourage bad bevior by catering to the child.
Dear friends of mine have a daughter who is 30. She is bipolar and another mental illness. They have bought this daughter everything she wanted. They are wealthy and adopted her. Her biological mother was a nut. No doubt her illness is real. It is just made worse by instead if teaching their daughter to clean up her emotinal messes, they’d take her to buy her Prada, Jimmy Choo’s, car, and constant flow of money. They were so afraid of what their daughter would do if they stood up to her they did opposite of what she needed. She’s now been in and out of mental hospitals, had a baby that is now been adopted out to a loving family. Sad.
to a hammer everything looks like a nail.
Imo the majority of these cases are the children reflecting the mood swings of a bi-polar parent. It’s about boundaries. The bi-polar parent has none and neither will their children. In the presence of a non-bipolar parent most children will be(come) normal. Laws need to be changed so that bi-polar adults do not have sole custody of their minor children.