How Do You Help A Child Understand Bipolar Disorder?
Sometimes children need to find an understanding of something that is just outside a child’s comprehension. Bipolar disorder is difficult to understand, since it is not a visible sickness. Perhaps a parent or sibling has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, or perhaps the child himself has bipolar. There are ways to develop this understanding, and there are materials to help. Read on to learn how to help a child understand bipolar disorder. Determine the level of the child’s potential understanding, for her age. Is the child a very concrete thinker, or is he old enough to understand the workings of the unseen brain? Does the child need to understand himself or someone else? Talk to the child and get her observations. What does she see in the bipolar friend, parent or sibling? If the child is himself the bipolar, how does he feel? How does he view it? Look for words or ideas that the child brings up, and try to use these. Use picture ideas to help the child understand. Use physical ill
