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Dec 12, 2020, 11:09 AM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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Originally Posted by sarahsweets
I believe I was always bipolar but back in the day when I was 16 they didnt know kids could be bipolar so I was just looked at as a troubled kid. I know my mom feels bad that they didnt know about bipolar in kids. I was hospitalized when I was a teen and my mom didnt know what was wrong with me, I wasnt officially diagnosed until mu 20's. My mom still feels regret that they didnt give me a diagnosis when I was a teen because then it was just kids being troubled. She realizes now that It was a mental illness but they didnt know that kids could be bipolar. It got worse as I got older and when I hit my 20's it became apparent that it was more than just a teen thing, Once I started getting treated she realized that all this time I should have been treated but they didnt know what they didnt know back then.
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I was in the same boat. When I was growing up, kids were either "good and cooperative" or "bad troublemakers." No one stopped to think that maybe a child had a problem that was based in neurology. Also, because psychiatry in those years tended to blame the mother for a child's problems, I believe that most parents were reluctant to reach out for help, for fear of being blamed.
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