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[quote=Anonymous]I don't have kids, but I have bipolar disorder and can tell you how it manifested when I was a kid.

First came the depression. I was sent to the school counselor in 4th grade, and when I asked why I had to be pulled out to see the counselor I was told "Because you don't seem to be a very happy little girl." I had bouts from there on. I can remember the summer after 7th grade I got up, went to lie on the floor in front of the tv, and did little else all summer; my mother was worried and called my friends to come over and get me outside. Bouts like that, usually lasting months, my whole life. First hospitalization for SI at 14.

I don't think I saw hypomania until my mid teens. I would play my favorite music until very late into the night and dance around my room literally bouncing off of the walls. Now I know that if I were to be up dancing around at 3am it would be mania for sure lol, but back then I just thought I liked dancing to New Order. I also had a few incidents when younger where I had hyperreligiosity. No doctors asked questions about mania in ways that would have led me to discuss these things though. So until I was 30 or so, doctors just thought I had depression. It was definitely bipolar all along.

It is very manageable with medication, but the medications available are pretty horrific for most of us (2GAs will take years off of your life and make you potentially more miserable than you were to begin with -- but that's a whole other story). [/quote]

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