I agree. I particularly don't like the fact that people who watch these shows might be misled about what the symptoms of various disorders are.

I know personality develops over time, but that said, I suspect many of us show a few of the same traits we showed when we were younger. The kids in the show had all been abused. In one family there were four kids who all had been diagnosed as bipolar. I know bipolar has a hereditary component, but I see more the common early abuse/neglect leading to anger problems in all of them.

There ought to be a different diagnosis for kids, as far as I am concerned. Oh, well.

(By the way, I am bipolar and was also diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.)