Most Depressing Headline of the Day

Kent Says:

“The early evaluations may help find the illness” – hopefully they won’t find it when it’s not even there. I heard someplace that Albert Einstein might have qualified as autistic by today’s standards. Ansel Adams, too, had some kind of severe psychological problems when he was a child. I think either one of those two individuals would have probably ended up much worse off had they been born in these times than when they were.

susan Says:

Liz,

I was at a NJ convention of Social Workers last week, as an exhibitor for NJ DBSA.

I had a social worker come up to me and tell me about two clients she had that were bipolar. One was a child about 3-4, and another was an infant.

I would love to know the criteria they used for determining how an infant is bipolar.

Thanks for finding this article.

Joe Says:

Persons receiving treatment for a mental illness speak of having received the “prophecy of doom”, i.e. too sick for too long to get any better. Is the following foreseeable? A psychiatrist says to his patient, “Let’s see you have been in treatment since you were six months old and you are now five. I fear you are not going to get any better and will have to accept the limitations associated with your chronic mental illness. Oh, do you have enough medication?”