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Treating Children With Bipolar Disorder
If it's a very young child, we don't come in with all guns blazing. You don't necessarily give the strongest medications. By adolescence, when the disorder is kind of declared itself and we're already seeing cycling patterns, that's when we're usually introducing a mood stabilizer or an antipsychotic. It's a hard emotional question to address for the kid and the family about taking medicines.