• Some features of bipolar disorder can be commonly mistaken for other mental health disorders with similar symptoms, depression , anxiety disorders , and ADHD. (thecouch.com)
  • Perhaps even more than the diagnosis and treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and childhood depression before it, the ascension of the BP diagnosis in children and its treatment with medications whose risk/benefit profiles are inadequately established have generated debate in both lay and professional communities. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Comorbidity Borderline patients often present for evaluation or treatment with one or more comorbid axis I disorders (e.g.,depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa). (bpdfamily.com)
  • As a mental health condition that entails severe shifts in energy levels and dramatic mood changes, mood episodes can involve low depression and hypomania, with mixed states throughout. (thecouch.com)
  • Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder in which feelings, thoughts, behaviors, and perceptions are altered in the context of episodes of mania and depression . (medscape.com)
  • Previously known as manic depression, bipolar disorder was once thought to occur rarely in youth. (medscape.com)
  • Outcome studies show that compared with unipolar depression, bipolar disorder causes more work disability and overall poorer outcome 15 years after an index hospitalized manic episode even when mania is in remission for at least 1 year. (medscape.com)
  • Alcoholism may be an attempt at self-treatment of another psychiatric disorder, such as depression, anxiety, mania, psychosis, or post-traumatic stress disorder. (advancedmedicalgroup.us)
  • Polygenic investigations indicate that this disorder is phenotypically separate (with or without psychosis) from schizoaffective disorders and schizophrenia. (medscape.com)
  • Common symptoms of bipolar disorder in children and factors that play into a diagnosis of childhood bipolar disorder. (healthyplace.com)
  • Bipolar disorder is often accompanied by symptoms of other psychiatric disorders. (healthyplace.com)
  • In some children, proper treatment for the bipolar disorder clears up the troublesome symptoms thought to indicate another diagnosis. (healthyplace.com)
  • Screening test for parents to see if their child has symptoms of bipolar disorder. (healthyplace.com)
  • Symptoms of bipolar disorder overlap frequently with other mental health conditions, which can lead to misdiagnosis. (thecouch.com)
  • The first symptoms of bipolar disorder are unusually varied. (thecouch.com)
  • However, approximately 20% of adults with bipolar disorder had symptoms beginning in adolescence. (medscape.com)
  • The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition ( DSM-5 ) does not distinguish adult-onset from childhood- or adolescent-onset symptoms of bipolar disorder. (medscape.com)
  • The diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder are the same regardless of the patient's age at the onset of symptoms. (medscape.com)
  • DSM-5 uses universal symptoms to define the diagnostic criteria for mood episodes, including major depressive and manic episodes. (medscape.com)
  • Therefore, bipolar disorders are viewed as having a spectrum of symptoms that range from mild hypomania to the most extreme mania, which may include life-threatening behaviors, dysphoria, and psychotic features. (medscape.com)
  • The prevalence of and appropriate diagnostic criteria for pediatric bipolar disorder have long been topics of debate due to the often ambiguous nature of bipolar symptoms in this population and because diagnostic rates appear to have increased dramatically in recent years, raising fears of overdiagnosis. (psychiatrist.com)
  • Symptoms of childhood-onset fluency disorder develop between the ages of 2 and 7, with 80 to 90 percent of cases developing by age 6. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Keep in mind that to be a personality disorder, symptoms have been present for an extended period of time, are inflexible and pervasive, and are not a result of alcohol or drugs or another psychiatric disorder - - the history of symptoms can be traced back to adolescence or at least early adulthood - - the symptoms have caused and continue to cause significant distress or negative consequences in different aspects of the person's life. (bpdfamily.com)
  • It is important to note, however, that symptoms of attention deficit disorder may exist with or without hyperactivity. (advancedmedicalgroup.us)
  • The physical symptoms may or may not be related to a diagnosable medical condition, but the extreme reaction to the physical symptoms is what characterizes somatic symptom disorder. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Females tend to report more physical symptoms than males, and it is therefore likely that the prevalence of somatic symptom disorder is higher in females. (psychologytoday.com)
  • People with somatic symptom disorder have multiple physical symptoms that cause significant distress. (psychologytoday.com)
  • In somatic symptom disorder, a person feels physical symptoms such as pain or sensations. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Conversion disorder, also known as functional neurological symptom disorder, is a condition in which a person develops physical symptoms that are not under voluntary control and are not explained by a neurological disease or another medical condition. (psychologytoday.com)
  • While mild stuttering is common in children who are learning to speak, this behavior becomes a fluency disorder when it persists over time and causes distress in the child. (psychologytoday.com)
  • substance-induced disorders are disturbances of thinking, emotion, or behavior caused by intoxication with or withdrawal from a psychoactive substance. (advancedmedicalgroup.us)
  • Childhood -onset fluency disorder is a communication disorder characterized by a disturbance in the flow and timing of speech that is inappropriate for an individual's age. (psychologytoday.com)
  • How common is childhood -onset fluency disorder? (psychologytoday.com)
  • How does childhood-onset fluency disorder develop? (psychologytoday.com)
  • It's important to distinguish dysfluencies that result from childhood-onset fluency disorder and dysfluencies that result from other causes. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Clinicians generally rule out other causes before diagnosing a patient with childhood-onset fluency disorder. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Diagnosis of childhood-onset fluency disorder is made by a trained health-care professional, such as a speech-language pathologist. (psychologytoday.com)
  • The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV (DSM-IV) still requires that, for a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, adult criteria must be met. (healthyplace.com)
  • In September 2007, a group of researchers made headlines when they reported a forty-fold increase in the number of office visits in which children had a diagnosis of bipolar disorder (BP)[ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • According to the DSM-5, to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder a person must have experienced at least one episode of mania or hypomania. (thecouch.com)
  • If clinicians offer a treatment for disorder A, but the patient has disorder B, treatment may be compromised. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 5-7 To mitigate these risks, clinicians must first accurately differentiate bipolar disorder from conditions with similar presentations and then formulate an effective treatment plan for patients. (psychiatrist.com)
  • Our clinicians have experience working with those struggling with Hypersexuality, Sexual Anorexia, and sexual compulsions as a standalone condition as well as a symptom in combination with other compulsive issues, like substance abuse. (sanapsychological.com)
  • Tourette's disorder, also referred to as Tourette's syndrome, is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary and uncontrollable tics. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Generally, Tourette's disorder is diagnosed by obtaining a description of the tics and evaluating family history. (psychologytoday.com)
  • However, Tourette's disorder is a clinical diagnosis. (psychologytoday.com)
  • this symptom of Tourette's disorder is called coprolalia . (psychologytoday.com)
  • People with Tourette's disorder can sometimes suppress their tics for a short time, but the effort is similar to that of holding back a sneeze. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Among children with Tourette's, about one in five meet the criteria for autism spectrum disorder. (psychologytoday.com)
  • As a result of genetic studies in families with tic disorders, risk alleles for Tourette's and rare genetic variants have been identified. (psychologytoday.com)
  • For example, speech problems can arise from a stroke or brain injury, Tourette's disorder, and certain medications. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Are stuttering and Tourette's disorder connected? (psychologytoday.com)
  • Tourette's disorder is a tic disorder that involves motor and vocal tics-sudden, rapid, recurrent, nonrhythmic movements or vocalizations. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Even as we salute advocates trying to change the deficit-model of autism, parents recognize that a differently wired brain may require a sex education that is tailored to the neurodivergent mind's communication differences. (autismparentingmagazine.com)
  • With more resources they could…realistically speaking however, the burden falls on parents and other caregivers to ensure sexual education is customized and appropriately delivered for their children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). (autismparentingmagazine.com)
  • 2021) offers recommendations to support more inclusive approaches to sex education, appreciating that a one-size-fits-all approach is not appropriate for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. (autismparentingmagazine.com)
  • To illustrate how difficult it is to use the DSM-IV to diagnose children, the manual says that a hypomanic episode requires a "distinct period of persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood lasting throughout at least four days. (healthyplace.com)
  • Type II bipolar disorder (BPII) is diagnosed on the basis of at least 1 hypomanic episode. (medscape.com)
  • It is classified in DSM-IV as an impulse control disorder with pyromania, pathological gambling and kleptomania, and includes the criterion of an increasing sense of tension before pulling the hair and gratification or relief when pulling the hair. (findmeacure.com)
  • Hypersexuality, or compulsive sexual behaviour, is when somebody has an excessive preoccupation with behaviours, thoughts, or feelings that become difficult or impossible to manage and which have significant and negative consequences to the person's life and overall wellbeing. (sanapsychological.com)
  • It is classified as an impulse control disorder by DSM-IV , is the compulsive urge to pull out one's own hair leading to noticeable hair loss, distress, and social or functional impairment. (findmeacure.com)
  • The affective spectrum is a spectrum of affective disorders (mood disorders). (wikipedia.org)
  • Affective spectrum disorder: does antidepressant response identify a family of disorders with a common pathophysiology? (wikipedia.org)
  • On the opposite side of the spectrum, the depressive side of bipolar disorder is a major depressive episode. (thecouch.com)
  • B ipolar disorder is a serious mental illness associated with premature mortality and potentially severe disability, and it may affect as much as 6% of the adult population when the full bipolar spectrum is considered. (psychiatrist.com)
  • Spectrum Disorders An extremely important aspect of understanding mental disorders is understanding that there is a spectrum of severity. (bpdfamily.com)
  • Mental health diagnosis and treatment can involve a lot of trial and error. (thecouch.com)
  • Early identification of medication nonresponders would be extremely helpful in the treatment of bipolar disorder. (medscape.com)
  • This commentary grows out of an interdisciplinary workshop focused on controversies surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder (BP) in children. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This Academic Highlights section of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry presents the highlights of the planning teleconference series "Improving the Diagnosis and Treatment of Adolescent Bipolar Disorder," which was held in June 2017. (psychiatrist.com)
  • Compared with adult-onset bipolar disorder, pediatric bipolar disorder is associated with a more severe course of illness, greater treatment resistance, an increased risk for substance abuse and suicidality, and poorer psychosocial outcomes. (psychiatrist.com)
  • In some cases, it isn't until treatment for other disorders fails that BPD is diagnosed. (bpdfamily.com)
  • Counseling with a mental health professional has long been considered the best treatment for a behavioral addiction like sex addiction (a.k.a. hypersexuality disorder). (addictionhelp.com)
  • This course is designed for health and mental health professionals who are involved in the evaluation or treatment of persons who use methamphetamine. (netce.com)
  • The prevalence of somatic symptom disorder is unknown, but it is estimated that 5 to 7 percent of the general population may have this condition. (psychologytoday.com)
  • As a result, sex addicts may experience severe mental health problems or financial or legal troubles due to their addiction, even needing interventions to influence change. (addictionhelp.com)
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy is the most common therapy for sex addiction and hypersexuality disorder. (addictionhelp.com)
  • Acknowledging and supporting differences, rather than focusing on deficits, should be emphasized to help children feel comfortable and safe in their skins. (autismparentingmagazine.com)
  • Despite clinically important differences in the way mood disorders, particularly behavioral differences manifest in a child or an adolescent, no diagnostic accommodation have yet been made on the basis of age. (medscape.com)
  • However, differences between the disorder and OCD have been noted including differing peak ages at onset, rates of comorbidity, gender differences, and neural dysfunction and cognitive profile. (findmeacure.com)
  • If you are recovering from a failed relationship, the important thing is often to understand which behaviors were pathologic (mental illness) and which were just the normal run of the mill problems common to failing/failed relationships - there is often a bias to assign too much to the 'pathology' and not enough to common relationship problems, or the issues we created by our own behaviors. (bpdfamily.com)
  • This condition is related to hypochondriasis , or illness anxiety disorder. (psychologytoday.com)
  • People with somatic symptom disorder spend a great deal of time and energy experiencing high levels of worry about illness. (psychologytoday.com)
  • What is the difference between somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder? (psychologytoday.com)
  • In other children, bipolar disorder may explain only part of a more complicated case that includes neurological, developmental, and other components. (healthyplace.com)
  • We agree with one emerging approach, which gives part or all of that larger number of children a new diagnosis called Severe Mood Dysregulation or Temper Dysregulation Disorder with Dysphoria. (biomedcentral.com)
  • when a person doesn't meet the criteria for the above disorders, but still have periods of clinically significant abnormal mood elevation. (thecouch.com)
  • by comparison, the diagnostic rate in adults increased only one-fold during the same time period. (psychiatrist.com)
  • In a 2008 study sing the DSM-IV criteria, co-morbidity with another personality disorder was very high at 74% (77% for men, 72% for women). (bpdfamily.com)
  • PTSD is a disorder that develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event. (advancedmedicalgroup.us)
  • They may also include a decreased need for sleep, racing thoughts or a sense that thoughts are out of control, rapid and often pressured speech, increased goal-directed activities or projects, hypersexuality, reckless behaviors and risk-taking, and delusions of grandeur. (medscape.com)
  • Early signs of the disorder include repeating initial consonants, first words of a phrase, and long words. (psychologytoday.com)
  • This is one reason why there is controversy around the DSM-IV classifications of Personality Disorders - there is so much overlap it is confusing even to professionals. (bpdfamily.com)
  • Bipolar is a particularly difficult disorder to diagnose. (thecouch.com)
  • There are no blood tests or other laboratory tests that definitively diagnose the disorder. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Up to 40% of people with bipolar disorder are misdiagnosed, according to a 2018 study. (thecouch.com)
  • About 4% of people in the United States experience bipolar disorder at some point in their lives, according to the National Institute of Mental Health . (thecouch.com)
  • a subset of bipolar disorder where people experience depressive episodes shifting back and forth with hypomanic episodes. (thecouch.com)
  • Research shows that Black patients are more misdiagnosed with conditions other than a correct bipolar disorder compared to non-Black people. (thecouch.com)
  • Moreover, many people with gambling problems experience co-occurring mental illnesses. (kmsdc.org)
  • Somatic symptom disorder is characterized by the way people feel and behave in response to their physical sensations, not the sensations alone. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Do people with somatic symptom disorder avoid physical activity? (psychologytoday.com)
  • People who have a negative outlook or personality are more prone to developing the condition, as well as those who have a family history of somatic symptom disorder. (psychologytoday.com)
  • 4 These developments have created controversy and generated concerns that pediatric patients are now being overdiagnosed with bipolar disorder. (psychiatrist.com)
  • In this Academic Highlights , Drs Robert L. Findling and Kiki D. Chang discuss current evidence on accurately diagnosing and safely and effectively treating bipolar disorder in pediatric patients. (psychiatrist.com)
  • Thus, medical, mental health, and other healthcare professionals working in a variety of settings with a variety of patient populations are likely to encounter patients who have used or are currently using methamphetamine. (netce.com)
  • Sometimes a professional can be overly restrictive with the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. (thecouch.com)
  • These disorders are identified by a common positive response to the same types of pharmacologic treatments. (wikipedia.org)
  • If you are trying to get along better with your wife, it's not as important to pinpoint the specific disorder or analyze the comorbidity as it is to recognize and fully understand the problem behaviors and how to constructively deal with them. (bpdfamily.com)
  • This course is considered self-study by the New York State Board of Mental Health Counseling. (netce.com)
  • For example, a Washington University team of researchers uses a structured diagnostic interview called Wash U KIDDE-SADS, which is more sensitive to the rapid-cycling periods commonly observed in children with bipolar disorder. (healthyplace.com)
  • You've spoken at length about physical and mental health, education, and job opportunities. (autismparentingmagazine.com)
  • Dementia caregivers are at risk of a variety of negative mental health consequences. (springerpub.com)
  • NetCE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0021. (netce.com)
  • Remember, you are not a trained mental health professional with experience making such diagnoses and even if you are, doing so with yourself or in your personal life is much different than doing it with others. (sanapsychological.com)
  • Somatic symptom disorder is a condition in which a person feels extreme anxiety about physical sensations, such as pain or fatigue. (psychologytoday.com)
  • a person with the latter disorder does not experience specific physical problems, but they are convinced that they have developed or will develop a medical condition. (psychologytoday.com)