As we and others reported last month, a very early diagnosis of bipolar disorder was one of the probable factors that led to a young child’s death. I’m sorry, but unless it’s an extreme exception, adult diagnoses such as bipolar disorder are …
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I too am following this issue of bipolar illness in children. What I find interesting in what I have read so far — and I have not gone back as you did to look at much of the research done so far — is an absence of curiosity about why the upswing in prevalence of this problem and very little, except from critics, about the tendency to label anything other than perfect behavior as pathological. Have we really become Lake Wobegone, where all the children are above average — and those who are not are on meds? Think about the memorable naughty children from children’s lit — would they now be slapped with a psychiatric diagnosis and medicated out of their naughtiness?
And, is there any data at all on whether children exhibiting the behaviors which result in the diagnosis of bipolar illness actually go on to fit the diagnosis as adults? I realize that wishing for a longitudinal study is its own madness, but wouldn’t that seem to be an important question to answer?
Barb Geller is a key-player in the C.A.B.F bp kids bipolar child website which heavily promoted medicating children with Early Onset Childhood Bipolar Disorder.
Keep digging.You will soon find the most outspoken, and pro-medications, pro-belief in the Childhood Bipolar Paradigm are all connected, and Pharma-funded.
i am a bipolar II. full university scholarship based on Selling poetry in HS. have founded multiple lite-industries, been worth 17-21 $mil, and crashed to welfare and tents. before exposure to ‘the mental-health’ system, lithium, librium, and absolutely demolishing risperdal(for depression)i always came back. the FDA is a killer.
the idea of any ‘Big Pharma’ exploitation of anyone, as i or a child? criminal. LOOK at the 2006 Emory U ‘real-life’ study of neuroleptics and bipolars—they found a 60% damage-rate vs. far smaller drug co. sponsored studies. these drugs are often termed a chemical lobotomy, at the least they swiftly may covert a bipolar to a schizo-affective, or full schizophrenic. it’s all over ‘survior-forums’, big topic of real victims.
you have no idea, lest you be there. plenty of clinical data, if you look. anyone participating in drugging children is no better than hitler. considering the scope of such disaster, perhaps worse—and simple to understand—’the love of $$$….’ it is not Ethical—but enormous crime. the former KGB used neuroleptics on some apprehended ‘double-agents’, reducing them to horrors, and displayed to their new agents as a warning—this you would permit ‘Big Pharma’ to administer to your child? Get Smart. Please—