Bipolar Disorder in Children |
Bipolar disorder is a mental condition that affects people from all kinds of ages, adults an children can have the symptoms of bipolar disorder like depression and mania. It has to be treat it with a professional to make an accurate diagnosis.
Bipolar disorder in children is no different than in adolescents or adults, however sometimes is more difficult to determine if a child has bipolar disorder or ADHD. There are certain symptoms that are present in people with bipolar disorder.
The usuall symptoms in children with bipolar disorder are:
Mania: irritability, hyperactivity, distractibility, estatic. However those symptoms can be also found in child with ADHD, but there are other symptoms such as elated mood, flight of ideas, extreme behaviors, no sleeping, hypersexuality, these symptoms are only found in child with mania.
Children with elated mood are extremely happy, laugh a lot or hysterically without any reason, those are extreme behaviors not commonly seen in the child.
Grandiose behaviors are also a symptom like thinking they are the boss and they dictate the rules, giving instructions to their teachers, act like if they are superheroes.
When children talk fast about different changing topics.
No sleep or lack of sleep, is when they only take 4-6 hours of sleep a day and are not tired. They can be doing anything like using the computer or ordering things at home.
Hypersexuality occur in children with mania. They might do things of adolescents or improper things like touching adults private areas and use expicit language.
There are different possible treatments that can be applied to children, usually they are the same that apply to adults. Medications can be used to reduce depression and mania or control it. Usually drugs like lithium, anticonvulsants and atypical neuroleptics are used successfuly in adults are can be applied to children if approved or prescribed by a specialist or professional doctor.
Bipolar disorder can also be treat it by a psychiatrist and it helps to control the condition and identify when the episodes are going to happen and what causes them.
Quick Tip #1
A Bipolar disorder is composed of 2 conditions depression and mania |
Quick Tip #2
If a person has sudden drastic changes in moode from depression to mania, he could have a bipolar disorder |
Quick Tip #3
There are some available treatments and drugs for bipolar disorder, however most of the times this is a condition that you learn to control |
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