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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your child was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, what were some of their symptoms as teenagers? Did they show any signs in childhood?

We've cycled through various possible diagnoses for my DD and the latest we are thinking about is bipolar. We've also considered autism, ADHD, anxiety and depression, personality disorders. She has some traits of all of those and may of course have multiple diagnoses. What seems unexplained by anything we've investigated is the intensity and frequent changes of her moods. Sometimes she is irritable and angry, sometimes near-catatonically withdrawn to the point of having difficulty forming speech, and sometimes cheerful, energetic, and talking a mile a minute (more like hypomania than mania, though - she's pleasant and fun to be around when she's like this).

She was very high-strung and anxious as a child but was mostly well-adjusted and did not have these fluctuating moods at all. They came on somewhat suddenly at about 13.

She has a close-in-age sister who is unusually even-tempered, so sometimes I wonder if I do not have a correct baseline for what is normal moodiness in teen girls. Moods are quite unpredictable and do not seem connected to her menstrual cycle.[/quote]

Have you done a full neuropsychological evaluation?

And are you sure her catatonic withdrawn stages isn't that she's just high.  Very easy to keep a cart in her room to smoke.  Or maybe she just gets extremely overstimulated and shuts down.

The other two moods seem pretty consistent with teen girl behavior (irritable and pleasant) [/quote]

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