Children
The behavioral manifestations of bipolar disorder are often not understood by patients nor recognized by mental health professionals, so people may suffer unnecessarily for many years (over 10 years, according to research conducted by bipolar disorders expert Nassir Ghaemi M.D.) before receiving proper treatment.
That treatment lag is apparently not decreasing, even though there is now increased public awareness of the illness in popular magazines and health web sites. Recent TV specials, for example MTV's "True Life: I'm Bipolar", talk shows, and public radio shows have focused on mental illnesses thereby further raising public awareness.
Despite this increased focus, individuals are still commonly misdiagnosed.
Disorders & Disabilities
- ADHD
- Agoraphobia
- Angelman Syndrome
- Asperger Syndrome
- Autism
- Bipolar Disorder
- Blindness
- Cerebral Palsy
- Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
- Cluttering
- Conduct Disorder
- Deafblindness
- Deafness
- Depression
- Development Delay
- Developmental Language Learning Impairments
- Down Syndrome
- Dyscalculia
- Dysgraphia
- Dyslexia
- Dysphasia
- Dyspraxia
- Expressive Language Disorder
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Hyperlexia
- Language Delay
- Lisp
- Mitochondrial Disease
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Oppositional defiant disorder
- P.A.N.D.A.S.
- Rett Syndrome
- Selective Mutism
- Sensory Integration Dysfunction
- Serious Emotional Disturbance
- Social Anxiety
- Stereotypic Movement Disorder
- Stuttering
- Tourette Syndrome (TS)
- Usher Syndrome
- Williams Syndrome