What Is Your Opinion On Childhood Bipolar Disorder???
Doctors are uncovering that children as teen as 18 months older are display signs of bipolar patch whatever concord that it is rattling doable whatever conceive that its a “crock of ****” i for digit totally conceive it what do you think?
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WAY over diagnosed. However, I do think it is a very real condition and a child could show some possible symptoms that early.
I don’t know if doctors can know at 18 months whether a child has bipolar disorder. Of course they can have the disorder, but the doctors need to spend more time with the kids before they slap the “bipolar” label on them). I certainly think it is possible to have it. If a child can show signs of autism at a young age, why shouldn’t they show signs of other disorders?
I don’t believe it’s possible to diagnose bipolar disorder in an 18 month old child.
Don’t get me wrong, I believe the child might have bipolar disorder, but it would be extremely hard to diagnose because so many different psychiatric conditions look nearly identical in children. And I mean children up to age 14 or 16 years old.
Before and during adolescence, conditions such as depression and ADHD can have symptoms that would indicate bipolar disorder in adults. At 18 months old, even schizophrenia or Tourette’s would look like bipolar disorder. So our current definition of bipolar disorder would not work in diagnosing an 18 month old child.
I tend to think that the research docs know better than anyone else (as long as they have no profit motive).
i think doctors have gotten so acustom to diagnosing kids with this or that this is all out of control with giving these kids all this prescribed sh*t……..just so everyone has life a little easier ….i think it its a crock its a money maker and believe me there making lots of money off parents who are looking for a cure for most kids who are just plain normal ..i mean come on now . they have a disorder that involes playstations gimmie a break .
The doctors claiming such spurious “findings” are likely to be connected to a pharmaceutical company that sells bipolar medication; it is so important to question and to investigate “research” undertaken into mental health because there is just so much corruption in this field it is truly sickening. Michael Moore’s new film “Sicko” touches on this, which should be a great wake-up-call to many.
On the subject of “bipolar” itself, however…
The word “bipolar” is simply a label used to categorise a list of psychosocial traits that Psychiatry considers to be improper or abnormal in society. Psychiatry defines these traits as a “mental illness”, and promotes it as a “disease” that requires “treatment”.
It is not a “disease”, despite claims or implications made by certain psychiatric and pharmaceutical organisations. There is NO credible scientific evidence that shows the existence of what constitutes “bipolar” as a biological/neurological disorder, brain abnormality or “chemical imbalance”.
“For a disease to exist there must be a tangible, objective physical abnormality that can be determined by a test such as, but not limited to, blood or urine test, X-Ray, brain scan or biopsy. All reputable doctors would agree: No physical abnormality, no disease. In psychiatry, no test or brain scan exists to prove that a ‘mental disorder’ is a physical disease. Disingenuous comparisons between physical and mental illness and medicine are simply part of psychiatry’s orchestrated but fraudulent public relations and marketing campaign.” Fred Baughman, MD., Neurologist & Pediatric Neurologist.
“Chemical imbalance…it’s a shorthand term really, it’s probably drug industry derived… We don’t have tests because to do it, you’d probably have to take a chunk of brain out of someone – not a good idea.” Dr. Mark Graff, Chair of the Committee of Public Affairs for the American Psychiatric Association. July, 2005.
Symptoms that psychiatry labels as “bipolar” (or it’s related disorders), can stem from any number of variable sources. Many people, for example, have overcome “bipolar” through megavitamin therapy and effective nutrition. A growing wealth of evidence supports that underlying nutritional deficiencies can cause even the most severe mental disorders, including symptoms labelled as “schizophrenia” [See source refs]
Bottom line? Psychiatry is a belief-system, a “faith”, not a science. Despite the huge marketing strategies, the so-called “research” and all the propaganda thrown at the world, there is not one iota of scientific evidence that proves that “bipolar” or ANY mental illness, in fact, exists as an actual –medical disease–. (See this video on YouTube where numerous psychiatrists, gathering at an annual convention, freely admit that their profession is unscientific and provides no cures of any kind! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHu7Ik361…
The U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health states: “The precise causes (etiology) of mental disorders are not known” and that “there is no definitive lesion, laboratory test, or abnormality in brain tissue that can identify the illness.”
If you have been told differently then know this: You have been lied to.
I tihnk its over diagnosed
18 months? Babies are barely even alive and certainly not developed enough to be diagnosing something like that!
Besides, how do they treat it? Giving those medications to a small child sounds dangerous and at the very least abusive. Those medications are hell and most children, hell even teenagers, don’t have the resources to properly describe what’s going on let alone getting acknowledgment from the parents or doctors!
If it’s just therapy and a warning to watch out for the future, fine, but no one especially someone who is too young to be able to have a say or communicate properly, should be put on psychiatric medications against his or her will. Any parent who would believe that about her child is a nut job. It’s like people who give their pets Prozac!
I also believe that putting a child into therapy, giving him medication or a diagnosis can mess up that kid’s life. Besides, bipolar disorder is over diagnosed. Imagine a who never really had bipolar kid hearing that and living to be like that (self fulfilling prophesy).
Does more harm than good.