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Originally Posted by flowerbells
Dear SorryShaped, you wrote about the boy in the movie, "The boy you mention wasn't causing trouble, he was having troubles that affected others."
Oh, HOW true it was/is. His parents tried for YEARS to find help for him -- therapy, psychiatrists, meds -- and nothing helped. See the post I'm about to make now about Why Mental Illness Does Not Attract Sympathy Like Cancer Does. (I had to leave earlier, which is why I didn't post it this morning.)
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They frequently don't properly diagnose bipolar. I knew there was a problem and reached out at 7, but I was "just throwing a fit." The first attempts at help weren't until age nine. 21 years later, at age 30, they figured it out. I'd been in constant psych care for over 5 years at that point, and nobody caught it.