She is seeing a psychiatrist later this month and obviously he is the expert but I can't help googling this subject and worrying and wondering.
She does have major mood swings seeming very down sometimes and staying in bed all day, then up all night talking to friends on FaceTime etc.
Stealing things from her sister (including a driving licence), risky behaviour letting a boy into the house while we were all asleep and having sex with him in her room, had cocaine with same boy and a girl, only once or twice I believe.
She suffers from headaches a lot. When she's up, she talks 19 to the dozen and is the life and soul etc. But she also has angry hysterical screaming fits. It has been tearing the family up. Seems very very materialistic, and also lacks empathy in a big way.
Can anyone please tell me this is not normal teen behaviour - i have 2 other teens and they have been demanding but nothing like this one. Can anyone share any experience of bipolar in teens?
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DD age 16 may be bipolar -does anyone have experience of teens with this?
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