can anyone help me?

I am a mother that is just about fed up with all the doctors and people that think they know everything. I need some help with this please. My daughter is 5 years old and She has seen so many doctors and all of them tell me something different. Now her pediatrician tells me that she is bipolor but she cant diagnos it or treat it but her psychitrist who i really cant stand and in the process of finding another one but she says she is only adhd and that she needs to be displined. which is just crazy. It comes to this the only reason why they will not diagnois her with bipolor is because there is one symptom i cant answer. The only symptom we are missing is the one that has to do with hypersexuality. Everyone keeps asking me if she does this and every time i ask them what it is or what am i looking for and the only thing they say is that signs would be more than age appropiate exploring. So i have been researching it and all i am finding is the very extreme signs of it that just make your stomache sick. I am wondering if there is a much more milder side to this and if so what do i need to be watching for. I hope that someone can help me. I have started a diary on her about everything through out her day so that i can take it in and they can see if she has it. But i really want to know what the milder side to this is. You can either reply to this or you can email me straight at.

 

 

chrismom2152 at hotmail dot com

thanks for all your help.

kamryns mommie

Why do you think that she must be hypersexual to be diagnosed bipolar? The DSM-IV requires X out of Y in order to make the diagnosis, not X of X, or all of them. A 5 year old should not display hypersexuality, even if she had the worst case of bipolar disorder. To a large degree, people learn about sex from other people (though there is some innate understanding), and for a 5 year old to exhibit something that could be considered hypersexual would be more indicative of child abuse than anything.

Was it a doctor who said that is the missing part of the diagnosis or possibly a misunderstanding from what you read online? I can't imagine a doctor saying that, well I can, but the doctor I imagine is a pretty crappy one.

Hammilton