Bipolar disorder
is a serious mental illness where one's mood switches between periods of highs
or mania, and periods of depression. In many cases, it requires
medication to control, and at the very least it demands therapy and
follow-up. What we know is that we have seen a huge increase in the
number of children and adolescents being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Certainly, doctors are recognizing it more and according to experts at Johns
Hopkins, they might be over-treating it. They say if one looks at diagnoses
that go along with prescribing, clinicians are using bipolar as a diagnosis 40
times more often than before.
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