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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 231505" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Another way of looking at it, which is the way the pediatrician explained it to me and it helped me feel a lot more comfortable:</p><p></p><p>1) Kids have mood cycling that doesn't fit the criteria for official diagnosis because that criteria is based on the way BiPolar (BP) presents itself in adults</p><p></p><p>2) When my son was very young (infant-4yo), he had asthmatic wheezing and a bunch of kids were being diagnosis'd with asthma at that point in time. My son stopped having wheezing at 4yo- so, was he mis-diagnosis'd because they say if you have asthma, you have it all your life; was it the "trendy" diagnosis at the time?; or was it that the official basis of the diagnosis being a lifelong problem wrong?- The pediatrician said that doctors are able to identify symptoms in kids earlier and better as time goes on and they try to treat the symptoms; the symptoms are really there and just as they are able to see wheezing in more young kids now, they are able to identify extreme mood cycling in young kids now. They really don't know yet if all these kids will grow up to meet diagnosis criteria for bipolar and some of these kids might not end up with lifelong problems of mood cycling. But, appropriate treatment and early interventions will maximize their chances for any possible "outgrowing of it", and will only help them if it does turn out to be "true", lifelong bipolar. As you mentioned- early interventions help "train" the brain, possibly prevent worsening. She said just like with asthma, if we refuse to treat the early signs we are now able to see, the damage done by not having early treatment could be what causes a lifelong problem in some cases.</p><p></p><p>Just like with my son't wheezing, treating it when it was there and learning triggers, preventative measures, and taking a pro-active approach has prevented him from having a lifelong asthmatic problem. So, he no longer has that official diagnosis, but we treat it more like it's in remission and my son has grown up learning certain steps to maintain that himself, at least as much as possible. </p><p></p><p>That helped me conclude what the psychiatrists had been trying to explain themselves- my son has mood cycling now, we are going to treat it as bipolar now. Hopefully, someday he won't need all this medication and other ongoing mental health treatment and meet the criteria for the diagnosis. So, I don't view it as a trendy diagnosis anymore and I'm much more comfortable with treating the symptoms of mood cycling.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 231505, member: 3699"] Another way of looking at it, which is the way the pediatrician explained it to me and it helped me feel a lot more comfortable: 1) Kids have mood cycling that doesn't fit the criteria for official diagnosis because that criteria is based on the way BiPolar (BP) presents itself in adults 2) When my son was very young (infant-4yo), he had asthmatic wheezing and a bunch of kids were being diagnosis'd with asthma at that point in time. My son stopped having wheezing at 4yo- so, was he mis-diagnosis'd because they say if you have asthma, you have it all your life; was it the "trendy" diagnosis at the time?; or was it that the official basis of the diagnosis being a lifelong problem wrong?- The pediatrician said that doctors are able to identify symptoms in kids earlier and better as time goes on and they try to treat the symptoms; the symptoms are really there and just as they are able to see wheezing in more young kids now, they are able to identify extreme mood cycling in young kids now. They really don't know yet if all these kids will grow up to meet diagnosis criteria for bipolar and some of these kids might not end up with lifelong problems of mood cycling. But, appropriate treatment and early interventions will maximize their chances for any possible "outgrowing of it", and will only help them if it does turn out to be "true", lifelong bipolar. As you mentioned- early interventions help "train" the brain, possibly prevent worsening. She said just like with asthma, if we refuse to treat the early signs we are now able to see, the damage done by not having early treatment could be what causes a lifelong problem in some cases. Just like with my son't wheezing, treating it when it was there and learning triggers, preventative measures, and taking a pro-active approach has prevented him from having a lifelong asthmatic problem. So, he no longer has that official diagnosis, but we treat it more like it's in remission and my son has grown up learning certain steps to maintain that himself, at least as much as possible. That helped me conclude what the psychiatrists had been trying to explain themselves- my son has mood cycling now, we are going to treat it as bipolar now. Hopefully, someday he won't need all this medication and other ongoing mental health treatment and meet the criteria for the diagnosis. So, I don't view it as a trendy diagnosis anymore and I'm much more comfortable with treating the symptoms of mood cycling. [/QUOTE]
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