Posted by yesac on June 7, 2005, at 15:18:04
In reply to Re: ADD versus mood disorders, posted by PM80 on June 7, 2005, at 13:22:07
Thanks, that does help... Do you have any of those attn-deficit type problems when you're NOT hypomanic? Just curious.
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> Also interesting - it is now being found that kids diagnosed with ADD have a much greater chance of developing bipolar as an adult than kids never diagnosed with ADD. That raises all sorts or questions and hypotheses.
My theory on that would be that the kids were misdiagnosed with ADD, and that their symptoms were actually prodromal bipolar symptoms. I just did a paper on early-onset bipolar disorder which is informing this theory to some extent. Of course, some of the kids could probably have both. I read somewhere that, like you say, being manic/hypomanic almost necessarily means you have ADD symptoms. Kinda interesting to think about.My psychiatrist says that basically illnesses just aren't as discrete as the DSM (and pharmaceutical companies) would like for us believe. So a person might not really *have* bipolar, anxiety, ADD, whatever... but really just have some big unnamed syndrome that just is what it is and has the symptoms that it has.
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