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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 14209" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>remember that "depression" can manifest in diff ways in kids and irritability and whinieness can also be part of bipolar cycling becuz kids just do not always manifest exactly according to textbook descriptions. </p><p>UG! I am sorry, I am not wording well at the moment.</p><p>Um, irritability can be depression, it can be anger, it can be boredom, restlessness, hypomania, or anxiety. sometimes you have to look at these descriptive words and consider them and try to figure out just which descriptive words are the right ones, and sometimes some docs also have difficulty sorting thru the descriptive words------and then it is also hard to see the reason behind the behavior-------for example, is a kid irritable becuz they re feeling hyper, or tired, or nervous, or internally restless? sometimes when you look at it a lil differently it fits together just a lil differently. I know I get a short fuse when over tired, hungry or in pain. If you were going to describe my behavior to a doctor, you might on casual observation tell my doctor- she is so short tempered and crabby.....BUT the basis of my short temper and crabbiness is I am hungry overtired or in pain. See what I mean? (thats just an example, I am NOT implying your child is overtired, hungry or in pain, I was just trying to show the difference)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 14209, member: 1697"] remember that "depression" can manifest in diff ways in kids and irritability and whinieness can also be part of bipolar cycling becuz kids just do not always manifest exactly according to textbook descriptions. UG! I am sorry, I am not wording well at the moment. Um, irritability can be depression, it can be anger, it can be boredom, restlessness, hypomania, or anxiety. sometimes you have to look at these descriptive words and consider them and try to figure out just which descriptive words are the right ones, and sometimes some docs also have difficulty sorting thru the descriptive words------and then it is also hard to see the reason behind the behavior-------for example, is a kid irritable becuz they re feeling hyper, or tired, or nervous, or internally restless? sometimes when you look at it a lil differently it fits together just a lil differently. I know I get a short fuse when over tired, hungry or in pain. If you were going to describe my behavior to a doctor, you might on casual observation tell my doctor- she is so short tempered and crabby.....BUT the basis of my short temper and crabbiness is I am hungry overtired or in pain. See what I mean? (thats just an example, I am NOT implying your child is overtired, hungry or in pain, I was just trying to show the difference) [/QUOTE]
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