Post by misty on Jun 20, 2006 23:56:58 GMT -5
Boredom and the Provocative Behavior of Children With Bipolar Disorder
We all experience bouts of boredom in life, but children and adolescents with bipolar disorder seem particularly prone to them. It often seems difficult for these children to become engaged with projects, or to set goals, and though a parent can offer any number of choices of activities, the children can’t seem to invest in any of them. They whine and complain constantly of being bored.
Often the children’s response to this internal state of boredom is to provoke a stimulus from the environment—from a parent, usually, or from a sibling. They create chaos, despite the fact that it so often results in family members becoming angry at the provocateur in their midst. One mother wrote and described her thirteen-year-old daughter this way:
Read on:
www.bipolarchild.com/newsletters/0402.html
We all experience bouts of boredom in life, but children and adolescents with bipolar disorder seem particularly prone to them. It often seems difficult for these children to become engaged with projects, or to set goals, and though a parent can offer any number of choices of activities, the children can’t seem to invest in any of them. They whine and complain constantly of being bored.
Often the children’s response to this internal state of boredom is to provoke a stimulus from the environment—from a parent, usually, or from a sibling. They create chaos, despite the fact that it so often results in family members becoming angry at the provocateur in their midst. One mother wrote and described her thirteen-year-old daughter this way:
Read on:
www.bipolarchild.com/newsletters/0402.html