U.S. Children Misdiagnosed with Bipolar Disorder - Newsweek
 

...to read the article please go to:


http://www.newsweek.com/2011/06/19/m...y-bipolar.html

The child in the photo is not raging. He is smiling behind the scream. He is this handsome little boy they told to scream and there is laughter in his eyes. That isn't at all what a raging out-of-control child looks like.

This article is suggesting that these kids actually have ADHD. Really? Another psychiatric label? So they just need a different pill? What about the fact that many of the children labelled "bipolar" had earlier been labelled ADHD and went off the deep end when put on a stimulant?

Perhaps, as Dr. Doris Rapp suggests, many of these issues are actually environmental sensitivities and are not mental illness as all. This article is just substituting one illness label for another, when the real concern should be the fact that something is very wrong when humanity has so many sick children.

with the growing evidence of environmental, allergic and infectious etc components related to some neuropsychiatric symptoms, I think many of these children are misdx all round

I found this link on a PANDAS forum, where parents know only too well how a child with strep related brain inflammation can be misdx with psychiatric disorders and treated with drugs that make things far worse :(

Jaspar, a friend of mine's son had an ADHD dx as a child and started adderall when young, resulting in horrible side effects and personality changes that now have him labelled bipolar as an adult.

I work with many parents that have children that have the diagnoses

Its very hard to get a bipolar when they really are anymore. But its because so many were mis diagnosed.

If instead of trying to diagnose all these kids with it. And the same technically those they do with Autism. We just treated all kids that have symptoms that need treated. In both these areas. Please there are so many other disabilities that we need to be treating and leaving out in the dark.

Why because we don't know how to treat them.


So instead of giving out all these diagnosis. I'd rather we treat the child,
adult or person.

There is so many that don't get touched because they fall through the cracks.

DOnna:grouphug: