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Feb. 23rd, 2007 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Daniel's having one of his turns again. Wild rages, wild laughter, wild behavior. This is after a week of being mean to his sister and generally pessimistic about everything.
I'm not disabling comments - I don't mind them - but this is more for tracking than anything else. I really need to keep better records about these mood swings. I'm thinking we need to at least see the pediatrician and possibly a child psychiatrist. Given my own mental health issues as well as my family history, it's not unreasonable to think that he could be depressive or bipolar...although I thought that onset in children is rare. Still, this seems an emotional reaction beyond normal for his age group. I thought we were doing better, I really did.
He freaked out completely - tears, screaming, a full blown tantrum that would put any two-year-old to shame...over having to turn off the TV to pick up Dave (we're down to one car - long story). So he's (and we're) officially TV-free (and movie-free) for the weekend; we'll see if that helps.
I'm so tired.
I'm not disabling comments - I don't mind them - but this is more for tracking than anything else. I really need to keep better records about these mood swings. I'm thinking we need to at least see the pediatrician and possibly a child psychiatrist. Given my own mental health issues as well as my family history, it's not unreasonable to think that he could be depressive or bipolar...although I thought that onset in children is rare. Still, this seems an emotional reaction beyond normal for his age group. I thought we were doing better, I really did.
He freaked out completely - tears, screaming, a full blown tantrum that would put any two-year-old to shame...over having to turn off the TV to pick up Dave (we're down to one car - long story). So he's (and we're) officially TV-free (and movie-free) for the weekend; we'll see if that helps.
I'm so tired.
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Date: 2007-02-24 12:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-24 01:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-24 01:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-24 01:45 am (UTC)I actually learned very quickly when and where to hide it.
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Date: 2007-02-24 01:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-04 05:21 pm (UTC)Have you checked out the book The Bipolar Child? It's by Demitri Papolos, MD, and Janice Papolos. You can probably get it through the library. It's an excellent reference.
I didn't technically have early onset -- my first major episode didn't come until I was twenty -- but I can look back at my childhood at various incidents and say, yep, there were definitely signs. I was easily able to cope, but it's clear from a distance that I wasn't functioning entirely on the average.
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Date: 2007-03-04 05:32 pm (UTC)I liked your comments to
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Date: 2007-03-04 11:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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