Bipolar label soars among kids

Someday, Jenna Beckman's daughter might be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, an incurable swaying between manic rage and depression. But it won't be now, at age 8.

Bipolar label soars among kids

How New Are The New Diagnoses for Child Bipolar Disorder?

Ellen Leibenluft, M.D. is an important exception to Upton Sinclair's maxim, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." As the Chief of the Section on Bipolar Spectrum Disorders at NIMH, she might be understood as having a vested interest in promoting the existence and study of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. Instead, she has been a vigorous advocate for several major studies expected to lead to results that would significantly diminish the use of the bipolar disorder diagnosis in childhood. She provided the impetus for recent follow up studies in which chronically aggressive, irritable children were followed over time. Chronic severe anger and irritability in children and adolescents are the most frequent sources of the misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents.

How New Are The New Diagnoses for Child Bipolar Disorder?

Time to reexamine bipolar diagnosis in children?

Psychiatrists in favor of a new label, temper dysregulation disorder, cite a spike in bipolar diagnoses. But others worry it will add uncertainty to the treatment of an already confusing condition.

Time to reexamine bipolar diagnosis in children?

U.S. warns Pfizer after children overdosed in study

U.S. health regulators have warned Pfizer Inc over a series of failures that led to the overdosing of at least 13 children in a clinical trial of its antipsychotic drug Geodon, according to a letter made public on Tuesday.

U.S. warns Pfizer after children overdosed in study

Bipolar Diagnosis in Children Often Harmful

Troubled children diagnosed with bipolar disorder may fare better with a different diagnosis, according to researchers at The Hastings Center.

Bipolar Diagnosis in Children Often Harmful

Bipolar in Diapers

Among the many so-called adult diseases now being diagnosed among the diaper-set, one of the most startling is bipolar disorder.

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Bipolar diagnosis jumps in young children: study

The number of children aged 2 to 5 who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed powerful antipsychotic drugs has doubled over the past decade, according to research released on Friday.

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As bipolar diagnoses in foster children rise, informed consent becomes a bygone

Powerful mood-altering drugs were prescribed to hundreds of Illinois foster children without the required consent of state child welfare officials, a Tribune analysis of government data has found.

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Some Reasons Why We Are Over Medicating Our Bipolar Children

by Ken P Doyle

Our society is so controlled by so many things such as the need to feel good, look good” and “perform well.” We have turned into a society of “medicated freaks.” In this article we will try to define some of the problems we as a civilized society are faced with, in regards to the illness of bipolar and bipolar medication.

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