What Features Can Help Distinguish Bipolar Disorder from ADHD?
Below are symptoms that can help clarify the diagnostic confusion between bipolar and ADHD disorders: Destructiveness: Children who have ADHD often break things carelessly while playing, whereas the major destructiveness of children who are bipolar is not a result of carelessness but tends to occur in anger. Duration of angry outbursts: Children who have ADHD usually calm down in 20-30 minutes, whereas children who are bipolar may continue to feel and act angry for up to 4 hours. Trigger for tantrums: Children who have ADHD are typically triggered by sensory and emotional overstimulation, whereas children who have bipolar typically react to limit setting, such as a parental no. Irritability: Children who are bipolar tend to be irritable in the morning on arousal. Children with ADHD tend to arouse quickly and attain alertness within minutes, but children with mood disorders may show overly slow arousal (including several hours of irritability or dysphoria, fuzzy thinking or cob webs, an
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