From Deseret News archives:
Children can be affected by bipolar disorder, study shows
The research published in Archives of General Psychology this week said that 44 percent of those who had manic episodes as children continued having them as adults.
"Children with mania grow into adults who have mania," said Dr. Barbara Geller of Washington University in St. Louis, who led the study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health.
People with bipolar disorder experience severe mood swings between depression and mania, a state marked by excess energy and restlessness. These episodes, in severe cases, carry a risk of suicide, but between mood swings most people are symptom-free.
Some experts have been skeptical that bipolar disorder exists in children. Yet, increasing numbers of children are diagnosed as bipolar, a phenomenon that has been attributed in part to diagnostic confusion. Certain characteristics of bipolar disorder, such as aggression or irritability, also are symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and other conditions.
At the end of the study, 24 of the 54 participants had at least one manic episode after turning 18. That rate was 13 percent to 44 percent higher than in the general population, researchers said.
Geller argued that recognizing grandiose behavior in children was a key to making a correct diagnosis. She said that children have not been properly diagnosed in the past because physicians are trained to identify grandiose behavior in adults but not in children.
"Children don't get married four times, or max out their credit cards, or buy real estate they can't afford," she said. "We have to find the childhood equivalent of these behaviors."
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