Teen Mental Disorders

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ciated with family history of mood disorders and other
psychiatric conditions. The person is even more likely to develop depression if a relative has a
history of recurring depression. “Children with Major Depression have an increased incidence
of Bipolar Disorder” (Watkins).
“Research findings, clinical experience, and family accounts provide substantial
evidence that bipolar disorder, also called manic-depressive illness, can occur in children and
adolescents” (Disorders). Because the symptoms vary between adolescents and adults, Bipolar
Disorder can be difficult to diagnose. The symptoms can also resemble or occur simultaneously
with those of other childhood disorders. They can also strongly resemble ordinary adolescent
emotions and moods. The difference between Bipolar Disorder and ordinary emotions is that
Bipolar Disorder can seriously impair functioning in school, with peers, and at home with
family. Bipolar Disorder is very serious and is characterized by repeated depression, mania, or a
combination of the two. These cause severe changes in mood, Energy, and behavior, that
interfere with norm...