Dysregulation disorderFollow

Dysregulation Disorder is, supposedly, just a new designation and reclassification by the American Psychiatric Association of bipolar disorder. A difference between the two disorders being the time frame. Dysregulation disorder, unlike bipolar, disorder is not a lifelong disease - you grow out of it.

It seems as simple as taking the one disorder, and classifying it based on the age of the individual affected. If you're still in some sort of growing mode, you suffer from dysregulation, if you're a full-grown adult you suffer from bipolar. I suppose then, if you were still symptomatic and grown to an adult you would be then be re-diagnosed.

Some mind-docs are concerned of the over-diagnosis of bipolar (a sentiment, btw, that is shared by some around here). And particularly in the diagnosis of young people.

Complicating and confounding things, as always, is the health insurance issue. Most insurers won't cover any sort of treatment for a disorder whose cause may be environmental in nature. Bipolar disorder is recognized as being a medical condition.

Anyways, I'm curious what Anna, Smash and others think about dysregulation disorder. Is it a viable diagnosis? Will it catch on? Will it be covered by insurers?

It seems that it's easier to put your kids on drugs than deal with their (perfectly natural) emotions. I can't say that I can blame the pharmaceutical companies for providing something that their customers are asking for. It's up to the parents to stop demanding this stuff and once it isn't profitable, they'll stop making it.

Alcohol and weed are a million times better when self-medicating. Legal drugs are full of nasty stuff.

I think we could split that one somewhere near the middle.

I think it's a crock of **** honestly. What they really need to do is look at more than behavior! Myself for example, I turn into a real ***** when I eat eggs, it doesn't take anything to set me off. It's an allergy and since I have learned what certain foods do to me, I try to stay away from them. My daughter has inherited this allergy. She can eat eggs at her daddy's on Sun, I have trouble with her until wed. She's like a walking PMS poster and she's only 9.

Other foods can make me stay awake for hours on end, like caffiene does to some people, or soy for example, makes me terribly sleepy, nearly narcoleptic at times.

What is really helping me now is that the hubby2B has nearly the same allergies and issues with foods, smells, etc. Makes life a lot easier having someone who actually understands that aerosol "Axe" sets off an asthma attack, some women's perfume or chocolate can cause a migraine, or eating dairy can cause a reaction so badly skin wise, I can't concentrate on anything but scratching. Also, some drugs haveopposite reactions in me that they are supposed to. Name brand benadryl hypers me up, generic calms me down, go figure!

It's like some say ADD is also a form of bipolarism. There are so many overlapping symptoms etc, really is there any one diagnosis?

I totally agree with Guenny, it's to sell more drugs!!!

When my son was younger, he had a really hard time, I had him on Ritalin. His grades went up, his behavior improved and he learned, slowly, how to control himself when not medicated. (His dad insists that he was lethargic and I was a bad mother for drugging him up, but this is the same man who didn't see his son for a 3 year span, he knows NOTHING) My son is 18, hasn't taken meds for a long time and is quite focused, more so than either of his parents. I do believe some people can learn to overcome their ADD/ADHD.

Others, like my hubby2B cannot. He will have to take meds for the rest of his life. His body literally jerks some times, it's like all his nerves are being shocked at once. He can't be still to save his life! I also have a friend who's daughter will as well. She's so bad (bad is not a good word here, sorry) I can only be around her for about an hour if she's unmedicated. I truly cannot handle that over stimulation, I want to scream! When MrDF says I am ADD, I want to kick him in the head since I can't handle being around those who truly are.

I have two girlfriends who are bipolar, and O M G, I truly have to limit my time with them as well if they are unmedicated. I also found that both of them are alcoholics, which is bad news for those who take bipolar meds. I am not sure if this is a correlation, but perhaps they use it to self medicate. My dad is ADD and at one time found other ways to medicate that we won't discuss here. I am glad he had discovered he has food allergies as well (ROFLMAO, well duh daddy) and has taken steps to change his lifestyle.

It's the chicken or the egg, here. I think in this instance, though, Adam, that a lot of it is the pharm companies saying "We has new diagnosis! And look, we has new meds specifically for this diagnosis!" and people jump on board. It's not hard for easily impressionable people to hear a list of symptoms and point fingers, either at themselves or their children.



Weed is my #1, but I ain't gonna lie, vicodin and valium are also two of my lovers. <3 I have a script for the painkillers for a short laundry list of reasons, and would like a script for the vals because they don't have a wall like weed does. You pop another and another and you get calmer and calmer. Whee!

My god, people take a lot of pills.

Hmm, 100% illegal might not be good. How else would men have learned that a four-hour pill induced ***** was cause for concern?

I always find it quite amusing when one of the symptoms that requires you to take a pill, shows up on that list.

Yes, and beef, pork and turkey
anything white, i.e. rice, flour, potatoes (also means no vodka), sugar eggs
anything good i.e. peanuts, wheat, yeah gluten allergy sucks too
anything yummy, i.e. chocolate, fruit, corn (yeah no whiskey either)
yeah barley, yeast, brewer's yeart, malt and hops, go figure.
honestly can't have any alcohol without taking steps to calm the reaction
Other: latex, codeine, penicillin, sulfa drugs, hydrocodone,

too many others to list, my life sucks, thanks! ;)

Are you sure you're not just an *******? I've been tested, thanks.

You have no idea.

When I worked in a medical office pharmacists would call us for refills. A couple of them were really good about telling us that a patient was getting the same script from more than one doctor. It goes on all the time.

Even if everything is overdiagnosed now, I would never go back to the days where mental illness meant being institutionalized for the rest of your days. Used properly, drugs are a ******* miracle.