What are the symptoms of bipolar disorder in children?
Adults manic and depressive swings last for days, in children they can cycle much more quickly. But they do have many of the same symptoms. I work with special needs children and had a bipolar student and learned alot from her family. Readers Digest actually just had a good article on this, check out these links… This site lists the criteria for diagnosis http://www.rd.com/content/earlyonset-bipolar-disorder-symptoms/ And this is one families experience: http://www.rd.com/content/bipolar-disorder-in-children/ Whatever the case may be for your child, if you suspect this you need to be seeing a professional. Even if this is not the right diagnosis, obviously something is wrong. Get a referral from your pediatrician for a good psychiatrist. Not a psychologist, a psychiatrist. The first is a person who got a coll
