I'd Like Your Opinion on a Diagnosis

i feel that bi-polar is a hard disease to diagnosis and i feel alot of doctors are misdiagnosising people with bi polar. in fact my cousin was mis diagnosised with bi polar and was put on medication for a year and half that she did not need, and it was strong meds, i know lithium was one of her meds and something else. she switched doctors because she felt like she was getting worse and together they worked to get her off the meds and she is doing so much better now. so a word of advice is tht i would ask your grandson's mother to get a second opinion.

I know it is possile, but if you are concerned, offer to pay for a second opinion from a doctor you trust.

i do believe a six-year-old can be diagnosed as bi polar and you are lucky it has been picked up so early. One of the symptoms is an ability to be two different people dependednt upon the audience. I clever bi-polor child will respond to the way he is spoken to. What does your daughter do differently to you? Does she shout? Does she have different ideas of discipline? blessed be, hope this helps

Bi polar depressions means sometimes they are really down, dark moods, so bad they can go into a state of "catatonia" where they freeze up and don't move. Other times they are Manic, and when I say manic I mean they can be so high and so "crazy" they could hurt themselves. Its like hyperactivity x 100 with Mania thats why its called Mania. Now I have no idea if its possible for a six year old boy to suffer the downs, but the hyperactivity bordering on Mania, well to be honest I do not know. Now I am not slighting you or your daughter but sometimes. Grand parents see things differently in their grandchildren. Its as if they can take a step back and see things different. Where as the parents are the ones that do all the worrying and they see things completely differently. Can you remember how you worried about your children, and yet its different with your grandchildren. I am at a loss how else to advise you, can you talk to your daughter. Does she think he might be bi polar? You know doctors are human if your daughter has any doubts perhaps a second opinion is in order. Fight a support group on the internet, do a little reading about bipolar. I was a children's nurse and I have a little knowledge from studying psychology, but these support groups can be life lines. Blessed be.

Kids are quite often different when they are with someone else. I find mine will behave a lot better for other people than with me sometimes. If you are concerned maybe talk to the mother and see if she will get a second opinion, it never hurts to get another opinion. I hope everything works out ok for him.

From what I know, six years old is a little early for a bi-polar diagnosis. It's not impossible, but it seems to me that they should explore other possibilities as well. I think it's dangerous to diagnose children with mental disorders, especially when the diagnosis involves treatment with medication. Children are still in their developmental stages, and it's possible that what the psychologist calls a mental disorder could just be a developmental problem that could be dealt with by different parenting styles or other non-medical means. I think it's just easier to pop a pill in a kid's mouth than it is to address the underlying issues. We don't really know all the long term effects of medications for mental disorders. Until we do, I don't think we should use these medications for children.