Children who grow up with the psychiatric ailment known as
bipolar disorder rarely grow out of it. Almost half of youngsters who suffered
from bipolar’s severe, rapid-fire mood swings at around age 11 displayed much of
the same emotional volatility at ages 18 to 20, even if the condition had improved
for a while during their teens, according to the first long-term study of
children diagnosed with the disorder.
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