Genuine clinical depression isn’t always easy to diagnose in adults, yet detecting depression in teens can be much harder. Teenagers are already likely to go through a certain degree of mood swings as they deal with the onset and settling in of puberty. Yet if they’re also suffering from anxiety disorders or other problems...
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...