3/26 Blog on Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is a term that many people have heard of, but something that a lot of people don’t know much about. I found an article on CNN.com that talked about the fact that children that have a parent that is bipolar are at risk for the disease too. They are also more likely to develop an anxiety or mood disorder. But this doesn’t mean that these children are guaranteed to develop the condition. But if they do, catching bipolar disorder at an early age and diagnosing it can be helpful. The article stated that adults with bipolar disorders said that 60% of them had their first symptom before the age of twenty-one. Sometimes it takes years to be diagnosed, so identifying the condition at an earlier age will help younger children cope with the disorder. Bipolar disorder affects 5.7 million people over eighteen in the United States, so it is important to be informed about it.
www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/03/healthmag.bipolar.parents.kids/index.html