Sublime

As a baby he could go for days without sleeping, and the “terrible-two” temper tantrums persisted through toddlerhood and seemed to grow proportionately with each birthday. He was extremely oppositional and his mother and father couldn’t find a way to discipline him, although they tried every parenting technique and spent a great deal of time in pa

After listening carefully to Demitri’s discussion of the illness, they said that their son fit the clinical description “to a T.”

they had blamed themselves for the difficult behaviors of their children, and how they worried about the effects of the illness on their well children.

Long before a diagnosis is made, parents have a nagging sense that something is not right with their child. He doesn’t sleep like the books say a baby should; his reactions seem too extreme; he seems always on the go with a purposeful look on his face, but a shambles is left in his wake as he goes off to do yet something else. Parents in other fami

the family is going to begin to withdraw so as not to stress the child or expose themselves to public attention and possible ridicule.

Many of our friends and even some of the professionals who work with us have not seen Robby in his full glory. They cannot believe that this sweet, charming, affectionate, and outgoing child could possibly be violent or bipolar. They just assume we are not firm enough with him, or pay too much attention to him.

Profound fears of loss and separation, the difficulty in adequately modulating intense emotions of elation, irritability, and the aggressive and sadistic impulses, coupled with discrete deficits in visual-motor integration (in the area of attention and executive memory and in the capacity to decode social cues accurately), have placed significant o

Bipolar children tend to have a strong early sexual interest and behavior.