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Showing posts with label Psychiatry. Show all posts
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Friday, July 1, 2011

U.S. Children Misdiagnosed with Bipolar Disorder

Children today are coping with a whole assortment of issues. Many of them are worn out from endless school, sports, dance, and other activities. They often have no time to be a child. Video games and hours of television and online movies consume them. As a result many children develop emotional and or behavioral problems that frighten and frustrate parents. Here is an excellent article by a leading child psychiatrist who says the current fad in medicine to diagnose children with bipolar disease is nonsense. See the article here: Newsweek