Bipolar Disorder Support Group
Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.
My 15 year old son has been treated for bipolar disorder for 5 years and I am having some grave concerns as I watch him enter into puberty.
Something seems amiss, his cognitive abilities seem slowed, or maybe more like there are occasional mis-fires. He starts stories in the middle of the story, he can't make what I would consider simple logical inferences, in fact in a lot of cases he seems incapable of any sort of problem solving at all.
He's taking lithium, Welbutrin and Abilify.
Anybody out there in or gone through a similar situation? What should I be looking out for? Is there a quantitative method of diagnosing bipolar disorder? In retrospect, the methods used to diagnose my son seem very empirical and I now find myself questioning whether the kid is even bipolar. Where to go?
Something seems amiss, his cognitive abilities seem slowed, or maybe more like there are occasional mis-fires. He starts stories in the middle of the story, he can't make what I would consider simple logical inferences, in fact in a lot of cases he seems incapable of any sort of problem solving at all.
He's taking lithium, Welbutrin and Abilify.
Anybody out there in or gone through a similar situation? What should I be looking out for? Is there a quantitative method of diagnosing bipolar disorder? In retrospect, the methods used to diagnose my son seem very empirical and I now find myself questioning whether the kid is even bipolar. Where to go?
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i suggest taking him to a new doc for a second opinion. i have read that adolescent BP is very tricky to diagnose. Find a BP specialist (every pdoc has an area they are best in) and see what s/he has to say.
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check out nimh.nih.org...i think that is the site...national institute for mental health. lots of info
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doctors do make mistake's, that's what happened to me, i was diagnosed as depressed, then they diagnosed me as bi-polar.
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