At What Age Do You Start Seeing Signs of Behavioral Disorders?
Question by Ms. MD: At what age do you start seeing signs of behavioral disorders?
I know so many people that have children that are close in age to my 22 month old daughter and they all seem pretty normal compared to things that I read in books and online about child development. However, my daughter’s behavior is very different from theirs. 1st off she sleeps very little. Getting her to sleep is a struggle at nap time and at bedtime. We spend at least 4 hours each day just fighting with her to go to sleep. Once she is down for the night, we are lucky if she sleeps 7 hours and she just started sleeping through the night. We actually just moved from MI to FL. The car ride was split between two days. We stopped halfway for one night. The total driving time was 27 hours. In those 27 hours she slept only 3 hours total (only two 1.5 hour naps each day). Most kids sleep in the car but not her. She also eats very little. I give her a lot of options but she never really eats anything. Many people always comment about the amount of energy she has. She never stops for a minute. She is a complete handful. I will literally be getting her out of something and she has already found something else to get into. I feel like she is a harm to herself. Even though our house is baby proofed, we can not take our eyes off of her because she always finds something that can be harmful in someway. She also does not care if we discipline her. It seems to have no affect on her. I have researched every technique on how to discipline and have an easy bedtime routine etc. but nothing works. We are very consistent with her but that is ineffective. I am tempted to just let her run the house, go to bed whenever she just falls asleep, etc. I am just plain exhausted. By 6pm I can barely keep my eyes open anymore. My husband’s side of the family has some mental illnesses such as ADD, ADHD and my husband has recently been diagnosed with having bi-polar disorder so I’m really concerned that my daughter may have something similar. Does this sound like just a normal active little girl or something maybe more serious?
Asking my husband’s parents how he acted as a young child is not possible since they are both deceased. I just thought I should put that out there in case someone suggested it. Also, she has been like this for several months so the move from Michigan to Florida probably has very little to do with her behavior. Thanks for your answers.
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Answer by ?Eros ?Agape ?Philia
My friend’s sister is bipolar and she, being the fu*ktard that she is, decided to mate with a guy that is a million times more bipolar and dangerous that she is and their child started to show signs of being bipolar before the age of 4. Unfortunately, the father ended up in prison for trying to kill them and the mother is nothing short of retarded so she’s never gotten her son treatment and he’s almost in his teens. We’re expecting to hear that he’s been involved with the cops any day now.
The sooner you identify and BEGIN TREATMENT of a problem, the better the long term prognosis will be.
Don’t ASSUME anything… But if you feel she is acting strangely, keep a journal of what is happening and see if you can get a consultation with a specialist.
Answer by gardensallday
Despite what the child bipolar groups will tell you, bipolar really doesn’t show up until the teen years. Many psychiatrists are very upset about this child bipolar stuff, and 1boringoldman ( a retired psychiatrist) says this stuff was always about the money. Some Harvard researcher got paid millions by drug companies, and made all this stuff up. Major depression and schizophrenia show up in teen years or later, also. Most of these kids that have behavioral problems that look like bipolar actually have abuse histories, these docs say. Besides, I have severe bipolar disorder, and I was a sweet kid that never caused problems. I also was abused severely and was sweet anyhow, although there were some off things – like the teachers thought I was mentally retarded in elementary school.
I think you should talk to the pediatrician about this, and he or she can refer you if necessary. I was not able to have kids due to the bipolar being too chronic, so I’d have been a poor parent. Good luck.
PS If you see a psychiatrist, it’s likely they will want to drug your child. I had no end of problems with meds myself, as did my brother, and even with bipolar, I am doing better OFF those poisons. That was 15 years of hell, and I think the pills are what ended my physics career. I think for a LOT of people, they are more harm than help, and you cannot get unbiased information very well – it’s all drug company stuff (and they pay off doctors to say stuff, and the docs do not disclose this, and also they pay off patient support groups like NAMI, and those groups do not disclose). OR you get weirdo scientology or magnetic therapy and colon cleansing people. So far as I can tell, the deal is that the drugs do not work nearly as well as you think they do, they cause more harm than you think, but they work in some people. In general, they shouldn’t be used in kids, because they mess up development, and the risks are unknown anyway. Be very, very conservative in getting help, and be aware that overdiagnosis is rampant, because the drug companies are writing the textbooks for medical schools now! It is as corrupt as can be, and many doctors no longer know what to do, and are full of dismay.
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PPS the first answerer assumes this child had problems due to genetics. Now I ask, what kind of household did this child grow up in? Almost for sure, it was a disruptive, abusive home, and the child has problems because of that. I had problems from the abuse starting very young, but bipolar did not show up until I was 16 and got my first major depression. Apparently, that is TYPICAL – the major mental illnesses show up later, not in childhood.
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