“This is a total crock. Just because some doctors are too quick to diagnose this disease, and end up incorrectly diagnosing some people who dont actually have it, doesn’t mean it’s a “fictitious disease”. There most certainly are children who have it, and who are making their own and their families’ lives a living hell with wild, unpredictable mood swings including violence. Very often there are other children in the household, living with the same biological parents, eating the same diet, going to the same schools, and behaving normally.”
I stopped reading the article there also. I know folks who are bipolar. It is plenty real and it’s far more than subtle nutritional imbalances.
Our best friends adopted a baby girl who's mother drank and probably did drugs. The girl, now seven, is developmentally delayed, has hearing loss (untreated ear infections as an infant), poor eyesight and a slew of emotional problems. If they didn't use Seroquel at night she'd be literally screaming and bouncing off the walls.
These kids are real. RAD kids are real. It's very hard for people to imagine children could behave this way even with good parents, but they do.