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Children Labeled 'Bipolar' May Get A New Diagnosis
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<blockquote data-quote="runawaybunny" data-source="post: 340720"><p><strong><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123544191&ft=1&f=1030" target="_blank"><u>Children Labeled 'Bipolar' May Get A New Diagnosis - NPR</u></a></strong></p><p></p><p>Since the mid-1990s, the number of children diagnosed with bipolar disorder has increased a staggering 4,000 percent. And that number has caused a lot of controversy in the world of child psychiatry.</p><p></p><p>Doctors faced with kids struggling with explosive moods felt the diagnosis was appropriate and said that the bipolar medications they gave to children worked. Research psychiatrists worried that the children were being given a label that wasn't right for them, and saddled with the sentence of a serious mental illness for the rest of their lives.</p><p></p><p>In a move that could potentially change mental health practice all over America, the American Psychiatric Association has announced that it intends to include a new diagnosis in its upcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual &#8212; and hopes that new label will be used by clinicians instead of the bipolar label. The condition will be called temper dysregulation disorder, and it will be seen as a brain or biological dysfunction, but not as a necessarily lifelong condition like bipolar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="runawaybunny, post: 340720"] [B][URL='http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123544191&ft=1&f=1030'][U]Children Labeled 'Bipolar' May Get A New Diagnosis - NPR[/U][/URL][/B] Since the mid-1990s, the number of children diagnosed with bipolar disorder has increased a staggering 4,000 percent. And that number has caused a lot of controversy in the world of child psychiatry. Doctors faced with kids struggling with explosive moods felt the diagnosis was appropriate and said that the bipolar medications they gave to children worked. Research psychiatrists worried that the children were being given a label that wasn't right for them, and saddled with the sentence of a serious mental illness for the rest of their lives. In a move that could potentially change mental health practice all over America, the American Psychiatric Association has announced that it intends to include a new diagnosis in its upcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual — and hopes that new label will be used by clinicians instead of the bipolar label. The condition will be called temper dysregulation disorder, and it will be seen as a brain or biological dysfunction, but not as a necessarily lifelong condition like bipolar. [/QUOTE]
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