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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 485658" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Janet, I believe you. I like calling it temper dysregulation disorder in children though because nobody knows what mania in kids looks like...not sure if that makes sense, but...I'm trying. I definitely had terrible depression as far back as toddlerhood and I had good years and bad years (but my "good" years were still not good). I did have the symptoms of what is called early onset bipolar, but I don't remember feeling manic/happy. So, say, if I were a little kid today seeing a psychiatrist, I'd probably get an early onset BiPolar (BP) diagnoses. Now for certain I have a mood disorder, but for the most part it was debilitating depression with one obvious hypo-manic episode. Is that bipolar? I don't know. Nobody knows yet. And that's the problem...those kids/adults who are in that gray area. I did try Lithium and it made me so lethargic and spacy that I felt like I was in a dream and that scared me. I never was open to mood stabilizers after that and the Paroxatene/Clonazapen combo seems to be doing the job. Very tricky field here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 485658, member: 1550"] Janet, I believe you. I like calling it temper dysregulation disorder in children though because nobody knows what mania in kids looks like...not sure if that makes sense, but...I'm trying. I definitely had terrible depression as far back as toddlerhood and I had good years and bad years (but my "good" years were still not good). I did have the symptoms of what is called early onset bipolar, but I don't remember feeling manic/happy. So, say, if I were a little kid today seeing a psychiatrist, I'd probably get an early onset BiPolar (BP) diagnoses. Now for certain I have a mood disorder, but for the most part it was debilitating depression with one obvious hypo-manic episode. Is that bipolar? I don't know. Nobody knows yet. And that's the problem...those kids/adults who are in that gray area. I did try Lithium and it made me so lethargic and spacy that I felt like I was in a dream and that scared me. I never was open to mood stabilizers after that and the Paroxatene/Clonazapen combo seems to be doing the job. Very tricky field here. [/QUOTE]
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