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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 340782" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Throwing my 2 cents in, LOL! I can see this work as both an advantage and disadvantage. The advantage could be that while so many kids are now getting the diagnosis of BiPolar (BP) and surely some of them really are, many might be misdiagnosed and this might help kids get diagnosis'd more accurately. The more accurate kids are diagnosis'd and ultimately helped as a result, the more credence the general public <em>should</em> give to the diagnosis of BiPolar (BP) or anything else in kids.</p><p></p><p>The possible disadvantages, along with those already mentioned, in my humble opinion, is this is just one more opportunity for incompetent professionals to misdiagnose. And it does get under my skin sometimes when I see diagnosis's that appear to be symptoms of other problems- like CD for instance. If a child has this temper disorder but no other underlying problem that could be causing (whether diagnosis'd or not), then is it really a mental illness? And how many would really fit into that category?</p><p></p><p>So, given those opinions of mine, it appears to me that the effectiveness of this is going to depend on the competency, abilities, and wisdom of the professional doing the diagnosis'ing. And that worries me. Look how many people spent years diagnosis'ing almost all difficult child's as ADHD just because of that one form we all have filled out that any difficult child ends up with "yesses" on, but in actuality these were symptoms of untreated problems in other areas- like BiPolar (BP).</p><p></p><p>So if we end up with a form that is meant to expose this new diagnosis and most of our difficult child's results will include the "yesses", then will the professionals stop looking at other causes, like many still do with ADHD? I'm just visualizing the sd psychiatric's using two forms now- one for ADHD and one for this and then trying to pigeon hole and sterotype based solely on those things. I know a true competent diagnosis is supposed to look at more than a form or two, but sd psychiatric's rarely do that. Of course the bigger issue is how the sd treats the child as a result of certain labels.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 340782, member: 3699"] Throwing my 2 cents in, LOL! I can see this work as both an advantage and disadvantage. The advantage could be that while so many kids are now getting the diagnosis of BiPolar (BP) and surely some of them really are, many might be misdiagnosed and this might help kids get diagnosis'd more accurately. The more accurate kids are diagnosis'd and ultimately helped as a result, the more credence the general public [I]should[/I] give to the diagnosis of BiPolar (BP) or anything else in kids. The possible disadvantages, along with those already mentioned, in my humble opinion, is this is just one more opportunity for incompetent professionals to misdiagnose. And it does get under my skin sometimes when I see diagnosis's that appear to be symptoms of other problems- like CD for instance. If a child has this temper disorder but no other underlying problem that could be causing (whether diagnosis'd or not), then is it really a mental illness? And how many would really fit into that category? So, given those opinions of mine, it appears to me that the effectiveness of this is going to depend on the competency, abilities, and wisdom of the professional doing the diagnosis'ing. And that worries me. Look how many people spent years diagnosis'ing almost all difficult child's as ADHD just because of that one form we all have filled out that any difficult child ends up with "yesses" on, but in actuality these were symptoms of untreated problems in other areas- like BiPolar (BP). So if we end up with a form that is meant to expose this new diagnosis and most of our difficult child's results will include the "yesses", then will the professionals stop looking at other causes, like many still do with ADHD? I'm just visualizing the sd psychiatric's using two forms now- one for ADHD and one for this and then trying to pigeon hole and sterotype based solely on those things. I know a true competent diagnosis is supposed to look at more than a form or two, but sd psychiatric's rarely do that. Of course the bigger issue is how the sd treats the child as a result of certain labels. [/QUOTE]
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