4. Delayed emotional development
Sedating a child who has difficulty regulating anger and extreme moods only further delays the process of learning to regulate their emotions themselves.
Do Child with PBD Grow Up Bipolar?
The main argument used for aggressive diagnosis and treatment of PBD is that treating bipolar illness early gives a child a better chance of leading a normal adult life. However now that increasing numbers of children with so-called PBD are in their twenties and thirties, it turns out that the vast majority "outgrow" PBD in adulthood. These results have led some American researchers to reach the same conclusion developmental psychiatrists and psychologists reached a decade ago: that the extreme mood swings being labelled PBD are actually a developmental problem that improves with brain maturation.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081006180654.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090929141530.htm
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