I know...the mania symptoms in adults and children can be much different. I felt in the end that in some ways they only added to the stigma by not making it clear that not all people with bipolar have that extreme rage; especially because in adults it is not always a part of mania, where as in children it is sometimes the only symptom.

That was like the show they did on panic disorder...first of all, the show was called "Anxiety" but it was about panic disorder...why didn't they call it "Panic Disorder"? People who have anxiety don't necessarily have panic disorder. Second, the few people they featured were pretty much "cured" after a few weeks of therapy - which is definitely not common from what I know.

I guess it bothered me that they were showing these as part of May is Mental Health month, and they didn't seem to try very hard to change the stigmas associated with mental illness; they just focused on extreme cases in all the shows and didn't explain that symptoms and treatments will vary with any mental illness. We need to do our own show, who's with me?