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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 369546" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>Smallworld, are you referring to this article? </p><p></p><p>If so, it doesn't say that hypersexuality has nothing to do with being sexually abused. It says that in a study of 93 individuals diagnosed with BiPolar (BP), 43% of them were also hypersexual. I'm not disputing that it's a red flag for BiPolar (BP) in children, but I'm not aware of research that supports that hypersexual behavior can't also be associated with sexual abuse.</p><p></p><p><em>But is this so? When Dr. Barbara Geller and her colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis looked at a group of 93 children and adolescents diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a part of an ongoing NIMH-supported phenomenology study, they found that 43% of this group who were manic were also hypersexual. In order to rule out any overstimulation or sexual abuse in the environment, each child and family was examined first with the Psychosocial Schedule for School-age Children Revised (PSS-R). </em></p><p></p><p><em>Dr. Geller explained:</em></p><p><em></em></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>This is a comprehensive semi-structured interview that was given by the research nurses separately to mothers about their children and to children about themselves. It has a section with items on sexual abuse. In addition, pediatric and other medical records were obtained and examined for any possible clues to abuse (e.g., multiple visits for accidents, unusual urinary problems etc.). Teachers and after school caretakers also supplied information.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p><em>Dr. Geller and her colleagues found that less than 1% of these hypersexual bipolar children had evidence of overstimulation or sexual abuse in the home environment. The conclusion of one of the journal articles published about this on-going study of children and adolescents with bipolar disorder was that the 43.0% rate of hypersexuality in the prepubertal and early adolescent subjects strongly supports hypersexuality as a symptom of mania. </em></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Is there's other info on the site that would clarify? We've definitely had reports of kids here who were hypersexual whose parents didn't report a BiPolar (BP) diagnosis, but who had been abused, had other diagnosis's such as Autism, etc. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 369546, member: 701"] Smallworld, are you referring to this article? If so, it doesn't say that hypersexuality has nothing to do with being sexually abused. It says that in a study of 93 individuals diagnosed with BiPolar (BP), 43% of them were also hypersexual. I'm not disputing that it's a red flag for BiPolar (BP) in children, but I'm not aware of research that supports that hypersexual behavior can't also be associated with sexual abuse. [I]But is this so? When Dr. Barbara Geller and her colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis looked at a group of 93 children and adolescents diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a part of an ongoing NIMH-supported phenomenology study, they found that 43% of this group who were manic were also hypersexual. In order to rule out any overstimulation or sexual abuse in the environment, each child and family was examined first with the Psychosocial Schedule for School-age Children Revised (PSS-R). [/I] [I]Dr. Geller explained: [/I] [INDENT][I]This is a comprehensive semi-structured interview that was given by the research nurses separately to mothers about their children and to children about themselves. It has a section with items on sexual abuse. In addition, pediatric and other medical records were obtained and examined for any possible clues to abuse (e.g., multiple visits for accidents, unusual urinary problems etc.). Teachers and after school caretakers also supplied information.[/I] [/INDENT] [I]Dr. Geller and her colleagues found that less than 1% of these hypersexual bipolar children had evidence of overstimulation or sexual abuse in the home environment. The conclusion of one of the journal articles published about this on-going study of children and adolescents with bipolar disorder was that the 43.0% rate of hypersexuality in the prepubertal and early adolescent subjects strongly supports hypersexuality as a symptom of mania. [/I] [FONT=Arial]Is there's other info on the site that would clarify? We've definitely had reports of kids here who were hypersexual whose parents didn't report a BiPolar (BP) diagnosis, but who had been abused, had other diagnosis's such as Autism, etc. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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