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Originally Posted by scatterbrained04
He is on meds for the ADHD. I think I would be hesitant to even declare anything as mania per say. He does have periods were he is more talkative or more into projects. But it'd be so hard to decide if it's really mania or not. Maybe it's just a developmental change or something to do with the ADHD. Meds losing effectiveness, etc. It's all so confusing. The attention and focus issues do stay constant. He's not as hyper as he was when he was younger though. Idk hypomania if anything.
I'd be so hesitant to declare anything without him being about to explain things from his perspective. Which I doubt he'll be able to do until he's much older.
Now I do notice it when he'll suddenly seem more sad or angry. He'll start thinking and talking more about death and just dark subjects in general. Much more profound difference.
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Yeah, I understand what you mean about him being able to explain things.
Even when I sought help at 22, I didn't know how to explain things. I couldn't say I had depression because I honestly didn't know what "depression" was. I had obviously heard of the term, but I wasn't aware of the symptoms, I guess. I wasn't educated on it.
Do you think schools should start educating children on mental illness symptoms to help children learn how to identify symptoms to allow mental health professionals to give out early diagnoses? We don't have to educate children on diagnoses per se, but educate them on symptoms... e.g, "I want to kill myself" vs "I feel sad because Tommy took my toy". If so, what at what age should we do this? We already have sex ed, and I got that when I was 12.