Posted by Sulpicia on April 4, 2001, at 23:10:55
In reply to Re: Reactive Attachment Disorder/Bipolar, posted by AnneL on April 4, 2001, at 19:00:33
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> I forgot to ask you about Bipolar II. I went to www.psycheducation.org and this Dr. James Phelps
> believes that patients with bipolar disorder go on an average of 7.5 years before being correctly diagnosed. When I read about Bipolar II - depression without being "crazy", it sounds so much like my daughter. The intense moodiness and irritability and extreme anxiety. And then she had that apparent downslide when she started Zoloft. I am going to do some heavy duty research on this. Any other links your sites you can think of? Thanks, AnneTry the Bipolar disorder site at About.com
go to Dr.Bob's home page here and look at the bipolar links
search for the Bipolarkids site [I don't care for the forums there,
very poorly educated at least when I visited]
search for the neurology webforums at Massachusetts General Hospital
[the Harvard site] and post on the bipolar forum --probably easiest
to start a thread to Peanut. She has all the urls for bipolar kids and
she is part of an in-person parent support group.
I post on that forum too.
RE; the delay in diagnosing bipolar, I sure do believe it. My daughter's
symptoms were confined to severe depression. It took a fabulous pdoc to
spot hypomania. It's extremely subtle in some cases. And then there are
mixed episodes, a hellish angry state of both depression and hypomania.
ugh.
The destabilization on zoloft is another hallmark of bipolar. They can't
take AD meds w/out a mood stabilizer or they start cycling into mania
or mixed episodes.
Good luck with this and I'll keep checking in.
Take heart-- if it is bipolar, please realize that it is very treatable,
more so than many problems.
Best,
S.
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