bipolar child questionnaire
How do you know if your child is bipolar ….?
The doctors give lists of questionnaires intensity and a 10 year old can not give adequate answers. Is the parent responsible for responding to the child? Psychiatrists do not have other methods of diagnosis?
You may not have to answer for his son but you may want to help them complete the questionnaires to understand the questions. You can also comment on any behavior you have observed. This means that we can not expected to say: "He has felt depressed" because you can not really know that. But you can say: "There was an explosion and a hole in the wall." Parents who suspect their child has bipolar disorder (or any psychiatric illness) should take notes daily mood of their children, behavior patterns of sleep, unusual events, and statements by the son of concern to parents. Share these notes with the doctor makes the evaluation and the doctor who is time for your child. Some parents fax or e-mail a copy of his notes the doctor before each appointment. Because children with bipolar disorder can be charming and charismatic for an appointment, which initially may look like a professional to be functioning well. Therefore, a good assessment requires a minimum of two appointments, including a detailed family history. As for the symptoms of bipolar disorder in a child, the disease may be different in children than it does in adults. Children usually have a disturbance ongoing, continuous mood is a mix of mania and depression. This rapid and severe cycle between moods produces chronic irritability and few periods being clear between episodes. Behaviors reported by parents in children diagnosed with bipolar disorder may be: a state of extreme expansive or irritable mood sadness or lack of interest in the game quickly changing moods for a few hours to a few days explosive, lengthy, and often destructive rage separation challenge to the authority hyperactivity anxiety, agitation and distraction of sleep, or, alternatively, sleeping too much bed wetting and night terrors Strong and frequent cravings, often for carbohydrates and sweets excessive involvement in multiple projects and activities of reasoning ability, impulsivity, thought accelerated, and the pressure to keep talking daring-devil behaviors (like jumping from moving cars or roofs) the early or inappropriate sexual behavior and grandiose delusions hallucinations belief in own abilities that defy the laws of logic (ability to fly, for example)
