Comments on: Manic Depression Symptoms in Children

By: Struggling Teens

Struggling Teens — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:01:38 +0000

Bipolar disorder is a severe psychological problem in disturbed teenagers. Kids suffering from bipolar disorder are more likely to suffer from mood swinging problem. Sometimes it becomes hard to handle for kids and they become violent. In the mood swinging problem rapid and extreme mood changes happens, which can make children most enthusiastic or extreme depressed. For dealing with kids mood swinging problem, counselors recommend effective parenting and counseling programs that help in reducing negative behavior of stressed adolescents.

By: Martha

Martha — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:20:57 +0000

Vicky,
It seems to me that you are internalizing all of his negativity and he seems to be feeling a sense of accomplishment by doing so. Misery loves company and you are becoming his best friend. If you think you can’t afford to leave him now that you still have your talent, creativity and dream…… well just imagine how easy it will be for you to leave him once he has stolen that from you as well. Pick up while you can and get a knew start. You sound depressed and can’t help him if you can’t help yourself. Just take time to get centered. He will find someone else to bully. God bless

By: AK

AK — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:16:08 +0000

Vicky hart: Why on earth would you stay with someone who makes you feel like that? Why? Why? Why?I have a child with someone who has his issues, deep issues, don’t have a name for his issues since I’m not a psychiatrist, I don’t know what he has, but I sure can relate to the way you are feeling because that is how I felt most of the time with him. I am a single mom, it’s hard as hell, but I’ve never been happier, not being “with him” any longer. Good Luck

By: sara

sara — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:14:24 +0000

My partner is suffering im sure fom many conditions, growing up he was physically abused from two step fathers, abandoned for a period of time by his Mother and sexually abused by someone at age 14 or 15. he is 40 yrs old now and has a drinking problem,he swears alot but can control it in certain company, he is obsessive about certain things and has these very excitavle episodes for a bout a week and then nothing, gets depressed. Sometimes he can become extremely hyper active and uncontrolable and he will drink until he falls down or is violently sick! He has obsessive begaviour towards sex, his idea of sex is the more perverted the better, he spends hours down loading animal beastiality porn collecting it and watching it. He has had two affairs that i know of in our marriage, he has been sacked from one job because of sexual harrassment. Appart from all that generally his behaviour is ok and he is a very loving and considerate man. he has a steady job working with people that have a disability or mental illness! and he is a very talented musician singer guitarist on the weekends. i feel that he may have elements of OCC, ODD, ADHD, manic depression brought on by his traumatic childhod, if there are any pprofessionals that cn give any advice please do. Thanks

By: vicky hart

vicky hart — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:19:44 +0000

I am currently involved with a 45 year old male whom I think has ODD., oppositional defiant disorder.(even thought the lit on it seems to say it is for children) he exhibits so many of the symptons – i know his father (had him at 22) was humiliating, shaming, and very controling, belittling, demeaning, criticised him in front of friends,etc.demanded he do things immediately, built up his expectations to do something then changed his mind (the father) at the last minute & would not go on the outing, I think extremely emotionally abusive behavior – but this man’s symptons (name is Dave) may suggest other mental disease as well. I feel it is havng a terrible effect on me. I am currently living with him, and trying to finish writing a writng project. his face is a mask, no affect at all.
total scary mask, no expression. anything you say, not anything, but I’d say 90% of the things you bring up he has the opposite point of view. opposes it immediately, and often hostilly, if you fight back and say that is just your own point of view, he tries to crush your feeling or idea, just opposing and crushing whatever you say or bring up. especially if he sees you are excited about somehting he puts it down immediately, blocks it, puts it in his own terms, like I said for examply “when I took a ride to the lake in the truck this morning I really missed my dog’s spirit (I usually take my dog on these little drives) and he said w/o missing a beat “No, you didn’t miss her spirit – you missed her presence” (always rephrasing what you say in his own terms. ) or you say, gee I”m feeling this, you know what I mean, and he says “no, I dont’ know what you mean” – complete lack of empathy, or interest. — then if you back down on your own point of view or an idea to do something, and he sees you have given it up, he’ll come back to it, and say well, maybe we can do that, yeah I can see that, once he’s crushed it out of you, or tried to. very confusing and feels evil. the other thing I notice and Scot Peck spoke about it in people of the lie, his book about the banality of evil, is that when you are around evil people, you feel confused, you feel that you have a weakened sense of self. and this is exactly how I feel, like i’ve been sprayed with bug spray. I lose my “will” to even move, to do what i’m supposed to do, and I think its all the opposing of everything, has a cumulative effect – to make you feel, just stopped, interupted, invisible, like you dont matter, I guess obviously if someone is trashing & oppsoing everything you say, how are you supposed to charge around in a healthy vibrant manner. etc. so the affect is extremely stultifying and numbing, I find myself not looking at anyone anymore, not taking in anything I might have feelings about, becoming critical and bitter of everything, when I am not like that, I’ve always been positive and pretty upbeat. but this is depressing the hell out of me. its like a huge wall, whatever you say is like a spitball against this wall, either he opposes it, trashes it, and rejects it, or he just doesn’t respond at all. another thing he does is if you say you saw a great movie, he’ll say, how many people were in the theatre. like numbers are safe for him so he does’t have to feel. anyway. am trying to finish a play, an important play that is going to new york, and I find myself in this nightmare life of small talk, reduced to whatever the other person will accept and won’t fight or oppose becoming less and less of who I am -why am I there, money of course, can’t work and write,but this may prove to defeat me in a much larger more soulcrushing way. anyway, it helped me to say this, if you have any advice or suggestions I would appreciate it. am trying to get a therapist. thank you for listening. best regards, vicky hart