Why Has Childhood Bipolar Disorder Become an Epidemic?
November 12, 2010 in Special Needs News by Admin Dawn
When a young child’s behavior problems go beyond mere toddler tantrums, parents face bleak choices about how to treat them. Should they seek psychiatric or psychological help? Should the child be put on medication or some other behavioral treatment? Should he or she be labeled with a psychiatric illness like bipolar disorder?
Slate had a compelling look at the question this week, which, unlike many previous articles on the topic, does not reduce parents who seek treatment to gullible victims of fad diagnoses who simply want to drug away any sign of individuality in their children.
read more at Why Has Childhood Bipolar Disorder Become an Epidemic? – TIME Healthland.
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