Why are more and more children being diagnosed with bipolar
disorder?  Health and medicine explained. Nov. 4 2010 4:46 PM
Manic Panic  Why are more and more children being diagnosed with
bipolar disorder?  "Is Your Child Bipolar?"  Ross Greene's
parenting book The Explosive Child begins with a particularly
vivid example of inflexible behavior. One morning, 11-year-old
Jennifer finds six waffles in her family's freezer and decides
to toast three for breakfast and save the rest for another day.
When her 5-year-old brother enters the kitchen and also wants
waffles, Jennifer refuses to relinquish the ones left in the
freezer and flies into a screaming rage. Their mother is unable
to calm her. Jennifer shoves her out of the way, grabs the
waffles from the freezer, and stalks off to her room.  Various
best-selling advice books give their own labels to children like
Jennifer. Rex Forehand and Nicholas Long go over strategies for
dealing with tantrum-prone tots in a book called Parenting the
Strong-Willed Child. Mic