Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is a condition that is growing more and more common in children. Many people believe that this is due to a diet of processed foods that children are accustomed to eating in today’s fast-paced world. Some psychologists believe that the tendency for children to develop ADHD is genetic....
For much of the last century, the psychiatric profession considered bipolar children to be non-existent. That is, they believed that bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, occurred only in adults, even though some early researchers had evidence suggesting that a few adults had symptoms that had indeed manifested before they were ten. But...
It’s only been in recent years that the psychiatric profession has even recognized that there could be bipolar children. The accepted wisdom was always that bipolar disorder, or manic depression, only developed in adults. This was despite evidence from early researchers that some adult symptoms had in fact emerged before they were ten years...
For many years the psychiatric profession didn’t even believe there could be such a thing as bipolar children. Bipolar disorder, or manic depression, was described as an illness that emerged only in adulthood, even though some early researchers seemed to have evidence that some of the symptoms that adults exhibited had actually manifested well...
Bipolar can show itself anytime but the symptoms can begin to show itself at a very early age only later to be diagnosed. Biplar in children have their first symptoms identified during childhood or earlier while others develop them later in life. For those children s parents who have the illness there is the...