Is Your Young Adolescent Child Bipolar?

Bipolar Children at a very young age have shown symptoms which only later were diagnosed as bipolar. Some have their first symptoms of this illness identified during childhood, and others develop them later in life. This illness can be genetic, especially for those children s parents who have the illness compared with those whose parents are not with the disease.

 
Symptoms to Look out for

One of the common signs of this mental illness is the severe mood swings that occur. Their mood swings are so vast that they experience high times followed straight after by low times, calm then extreme anger in a matter of few minutes. Young children with severe mania symptoms are more likely to be bad tempered and liable to destructive tantrums than to be overly happy. They can be terrific children when compliant to their drugs but without their prescribed drug they can get extremely angry and irritable.

Signs to Look out for

Because other problems and emotional changes are occurring within these age groups, this disorder in young ones is not easy to diagnose. Irritability and aggressiveness can indicate bipolar illness but they can also be signs of other mental health illness like attention deficit, oppositional conduct, defiant disorder and even hyperactivity disorder. Depression or schizophrenia is also found in this age groups. Those on illicit drug abuse can lead to symptoms close to that of bipolar. Older adolescents has a much closer link to the adult-type episodes and its symptoms than those younger adolescent.

Some physical Signs

Those with this disease can be ill-tempered and crabby and get angry more often than normal. The illness has seen children use profane languages to their parents and everybody around them, do not want to go to school, are dishonest and disobedient. When depressed their self-esteem, confidence and ambition can turn upside down.

Words of Advice

A proper diagnosis for those with the disorder is needed for an effective treatment of this mental disease. Bipolar disorder is a long-term illness that must be carefully managed throughout a patients whole life. Let them be evaluated by a mental health professional if your child is showing emotional and behavioral symptoms. And if they start talking about suicide or become suicidal, be serious with them and refer them to a mental health doctor near you.