{"id":9993,"date":"2016-12-05T09:53:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T17:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=9993"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:03","slug":"straight-talk-about-hypersexuality-in-children-with-bipolar-disorder-by-dimitri-papolous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/straight-talk-about-hypersexuality-in-children-with-bipolar-disorder-by-dimitri-papolous\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight Talk about Hypersexuality in Children with Bipolar Disorder by Dimitri Papolous"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From Bp Magazine. Here is one of the best posts I have read in a LONG time. \u00a0By Demitri Papolos, MD who wrote The Bipolar Child. <\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A very common symptom of bipolar disorder\u2014 hypersexuality \u2014 is one that particularly affects and disturbs the families of children who have the illness, and yet is rarely talked about.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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By Demitri Papolos, MD<\/p>\n

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\"Print\"<\/a>Hypersexuality in children is rarely openly discussed for two reasons: one is that sexuality in children (bipolar or not) is simply not spoken about in public; and the other, sadly, is that parents of hypersexual children are afraid to mention the subject. They are petrified that child protective service agencies will find out and wrongly assume that a hypersexual child is an over stimulated child, and that overstimulation stems from sexual abuse in the home. Few people\u2014even the professionals at child protective service agencies\u2014 realize that\u00a0hypersexuality<\/a>is very common during the manic or hypomanic stages of\u00a0bipolar disorder in adults\u00a0and in children.<\/p>\n

What is the definition of hypersexuality?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Webster\u2019s New Collegiate Dictionary\u00a0<\/em>describes \u201chypersexual\u201d as \u201cunusually or excessively interested in or concerned with sexual activity.\u201d It is an accepted fact that hypersexuality hypersexuality is a symptom of hypomania or mania in an adult who has bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n

In children, the symptom may manifest as a fascination with private parts and an increase in self-stimulatory behaviors, a precocious interest in things of a sexual nature, and language laced with highly sexual words or phrases.<\/p>\n

Click here to visit Bp Magazine and read Straight talk about Hypersexuality in Children with Bipolar.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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A note from Julie:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>If you have bipolar disorder, do you have hyper sexuality? This is a common symptom of mania, especially euphoric mania. I have struggled with hyper sexuality symptoms since age 17.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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At what age did yours start and how do you manage them now? <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I have worked on this for many years and finally have it under control. Imagine dealing with the symptoms as a child! <\/span><\/div>\n
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Julie<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"kids-bipolar-hypersexuality1\"<\/a> From Bp Magazine. Here is one of the best posts I have read in a LONG time. By Demitri Papolos, MD who wrote The Bipolar Child. A very common symptom of bipolar disorder\u2014 hypersexuality \u2014 is one that particularly affects and disturbs the families of children who have the illness, and yet is rarely talked about. <\/p>\n

By Demitri Papolos, MD<\/p>\n

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\"Print\"<\/a>Hypersexuality in children is rarely openly discussed for two reasons: one is that sexuality in children (bipolar or not) is simply not spoken about in public; and the other, sadly, is that parents of hypersexual children are afraid to mention the subject. They are petrified that child protective service [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11109,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions\/11109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}