HI,
Here is more about child bipolar VS Temper Dysregulation Disorder with Dysphoria.
M.
http://www.child-psych.org/2010/02/c...dysphoria.html
Childhood Bipolar Disorder is not Bipolar?
DSM-V and the new Temper Dysregulation Disorder with Dysphoria
Written by Nestor Lopez-Duran PhD on Wednesday, February 10.2010
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Let me start by explaining that the creation of TDD does NOT deny the existence of classic bipolar disorder in childhood. That is, although extremely rare, bipolar disorder can occur in children and adolescents, and it looks very much like adult bipolar. Instead, TDD was created to capture a valid syndrome with characteristics and outcomes that are different than those of bipolar disorder.
The available scientific data supports the position that the TDD syndrome is NOT simply the manifestation of bipolar disorder in childhood.
This means that thousands of children that have been diagnosed with childhood bipolar disorder may not have bipolar and instead have a completely different syndrome now called Temper Dysregulation Disorder with Dysphoria.
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