Bipolar Disorder Symptoms and Treatment

Children with bipolar disorder usually have maniac or depressive symptoms. Most children experience depression, while some of them have a combination maniac and depressive symptom. The symptoms will switch off with high and sometimes low. If maniac symptoms, they have much mood swings. They can be very irritable, aggressive, excited, act very happy and sometimes very stupid and they can be very angry. They have much high self-esteem and probably think that it is a kind of super power. You can for days without the need of go to sleep and still a lot of energy and is not tired. It will be almost impossible to keep all the child. You will talk much; the speech will be too fast and topics often change. You are easily distracted. At this time, the child will not bale to focus on one thing. You always changing activities. The child is likely to get in fights and a lot of last.

When the children learn in the depressive episode. a depression will be the child sad mood, irritability, the need to much wine, and in most cases. You lose interest in their favorite past of leisure activities. You have the thoughts of suicide or talk a lot about the death. The child is much of stomach pain and headaches and other physical illness to complain. Have very low levels of energy, concentration, fatigue and is mostly complain about you bored, also if it's something to do. You will notice a big change with the sleep patterns. This can be either on sleep sleep be not at all. The child have also a large appetite. The good news is that an improvement in the treatment of bipolar disorder occurred. Onset occurs in infancy and it may affect any child. But if the child has a parent who had bipolar disorder, then they are even likely. If the family has a history of drug and alcohol abuse, there is also greater risk of the child with bipolar disorder.

However, the children can be effectively treated. The treatment will include to educate them, parents and family about the disease. The child will be provided under mood stabilizing drugs. The drugs are lithium, atypical antipsychotic, Valporic and psychotherapy. The medications help with reducing the episodes and help in preventing the depression. With psychotherapy, the child will be able to regain, deal with the condition and stress to avoid his self-esteem and improve on broken relationships. The diagnosis is quite complex in children. It requires to identify a careful observation and the help of a psychiatrist the error and the children on treatment can be started.