Kids can not be diagnosis'd BiPolar (BP), nor Mood-Disorder...

[BusynMember]

Marg, I HAD early onset bipolar. It wasn't autism. It wasn't ADHD. I wanted to kill myself as early as four. I don't believe that this doctor can help her. I believe that Austrailia will start to diagnose bipolar in children, because mood disorders in young children do exist, and I'm one of them who had it. There is no point sticking with a doctor who is so rigid when so many doctors here are more open-minded and willing to look beyond ADHD. I would have told I had ADHD twenty years ago if I'd still been a kid, but, thankfully, at least here things have changed. Nothing against Australia, but I just feel that saying there are no mood disorders in children is wrong, no matter what country the doctor lives in. I'm myself and I know what I went through as a child
Tortoro, you done good

 

[susiestar]

This strikes me as saying that children don't feel pain. If I had a penny for every time a medical professional told me that I would be richer than Bill Gates!!! I am not, in any way, joking.

Is there any way at all of going back to psychiatrist 1? Or seeing someone she recommends? Seems to me that might be the way to go.

MWM, I watched my difficult child make a suicide attempt at age 7. I say watched because I had no way to get to him to stop it. He made at least 5 within a 2 month period, and those are the ones I know about. He did not try to hide them, but he did not try to show them off. They were just what he felt he had to do at the time. I truly FEAR what would happen to him if he was not on an antidepressant. I am sorry you had so much pain as a child.

Bipolar/Mood Disorders exist in kids. It is just a fact. It is a shame that docs like this one still have licenses to practice.

Totoro, I am sending (((((((hugs)))))))) to you and husband and the entire family. I will keep praying and hoping and crossing everything I can that you find a doctor who can and will help.

Susie

 

[klmno]

What a quack. It's "help" like that, that ruins whatever chances our kids have for living normal healthy lives. It is a real shame that we can't depend on those with credentials that qualify them to be professionals to just tell us what they can help with and what they can't. I hate to think of the parents who haven't found this forum or any other resource and who believe what this person would say.

 

[DammitJanet]

MWM...I can remember wanting to hurt myself very young. I also did amazingly weird things as a small kid that should have been huge red flags...they would be today. At that age I was considered "precocious" and things were chalked up to me being an only child...LOL. I can clearly remember my mom telling my dad he better get a handle on me when I was six or no one would be able to control me at 16. They were right but there is so much more to that story.

 

[tammyjh]

I understand your frustration and we've gone through this for years. We've always been up front in telling all difficult child's dr.'s about her extensive brain surgery but its only been in this last year that we've been able to have it put down on paper as her primary diagnosis. Most dr.'s/specialists just wanted to tell us that there really wasn't anything wrong with her other than being spoiled. I've even had two child psychiatrists tell me that "I" was WRONG on the type of surgery she had and wouldn't believe me until they saw her MRI's

So sorry that you have to deal with such ignorance.