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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 289258" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>What an excellent idea! You are very right that charting him mood with that form will give you unbiased (as much as anything is) data about how often and how severely his moods change. It will truly let you see a "big picture" of what is going on. </p><p></p><p>You have gotten some great advice and insight, esp from the moms who are bipolar. I think MWM has such valuable insight now that she and her difficult child are both correctly diagnosis'd. I agree with her that sometimes docs are too fast to give the mood disorder label. Though there ARE docs who refuse outright to give kids a diagnosis other than "mood disorder - not otherwise specified" or just depression. Too often depression is noted because the observer thinks the child is just "happy" instead of manic. This leads to a scary round of antidepressants that sends the child cycling out of control. AD's also send non-bipolar children on wild mood changes - often even seeming high or drunk! </p><p></p><p>Your difficult child is lucky that you and your family all take this in stride as "just life". in my opinion it makes difficult child feel more "normal" and that is a good thing!</p><p></p><p>Hugs!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 289258, member: 1233"] What an excellent idea! You are very right that charting him mood with that form will give you unbiased (as much as anything is) data about how often and how severely his moods change. It will truly let you see a "big picture" of what is going on. You have gotten some great advice and insight, esp from the moms who are bipolar. I think MWM has such valuable insight now that she and her difficult child are both correctly diagnosis'd. I agree with her that sometimes docs are too fast to give the mood disorder label. Though there ARE docs who refuse outright to give kids a diagnosis other than "mood disorder - not otherwise specified" or just depression. Too often depression is noted because the observer thinks the child is just "happy" instead of manic. This leads to a scary round of antidepressants that sends the child cycling out of control. AD's also send non-bipolar children on wild mood changes - often even seeming high or drunk! Your difficult child is lucky that you and your family all take this in stride as "just life". in my opinion it makes difficult child feel more "normal" and that is a good thing! Hugs!! [/QUOTE]
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