Friday, June 24, 2011

Fragile minds: Kids, meds and a diagnosis gone wrong

By Star Tribune

Someday, Jenna Beckman’s daughter might be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, an incurable swaying between manic rage and depression. But it won’t be now, at age 8.

The brown-haired spitfire can be calm one minute, screaming and biting the next. In her most anxious moments at school, Jade Boyce runs out of her classroom and hides.

Yet while her behavior resembles the symptoms of

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