How young can a child be diagnosed with bi-polar disorder?
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I had a friend whose son was diagnosed as bi-polar disorder at the age of 7.
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By undergoing clinical tests administered by the school psychologist and hence being judged to have this condition would be a logical assumption.
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It is being increasingly recognized that bipolar disorder often has its onset in adolescence or early adulthood. First affective symptoms appear in early teenage, and even in preadolescence. There is a growing interest, with little consensus, in the affective and behavioral symptomatology in childhood and adolescence preceding the first onset of a clearly diagnosable bipolar disorder. http://www.healthyplace.net/communities/bipolar/children_010.asp As a therapist, I've seen it in latency age kids.
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