Last I checked the whole diagnosing children with bipolar thing was still a little controversial. I'm not sure how I feel about it. If everyone who knew my brother and I when we were children was asked to guess which of us would be bipolar I'm pretty sure everyone would have immediately answered wrong.

My brothers emotions were always on the surface. He was jumping up and down excited, quiet for hours or having a severe red-faced, point-of-no-return, total melt-down. As an adult he is so normal it's boring.

They thought one of my cousins was bipolar when he was little because he threw such extreme tantrums. Now he is pretty much the most typical, average 13-year-old boy I've ever seen. As far as I can tell his main "moods" are annoyed, electronic social networking and boobs.

Sorry if that went off on a tangent. I'm curious about other people's thoughts on the idea.