Symptoms of mania in children

For children at home, since they are young, they are usually given over to at home. Therefore, for some inappropriate behaviors of children, many parents will attribute it to naughtiness and ignorance. But in fact, children are also likely to have mental illnesses, which will make them unable to control their emotions and behaviors. Childhood mania is such a disease. Its main symptoms are emotional highs or lows. Let's take a look at the symptoms of childhood mania.

1. The symptoms of mania in children include sleeping late in the morning and not getting up, being unwilling to wash and change into school uniforms for school, becoming well-behaved and obedient at noon, but becoming wild again in the afternoon, laughing and making noise from time to time. Experts say that as children with mania grow older, their condition becomes more difficult to control. These children have weaker planning and organizational skills and are more likely to encounter setbacks in their studies. Moreover, when children with mania grow up, the rate of alcoholism and drug abuse is twice that of the general population, and the suicide rate is as high as 20%.

2. Mania and depression occur together in children, so mild and short-term depression is not easy to detect. The most prominent symptom of childhood mania is mania. Therefore, as parents, we must prevent mania from invading our children. Experts remind parents that when their children show abnormal behavior, they should go to the hospital for examination in time. Parents should pay more attention to their children's language and behavior in daily life. Children with mania should avoid stimulating foods such as chocolate and tea.

3. Childhood mania is characterized by mood changes, that is, sometimes they are well-behaved and sometimes they are manic, so parents can identify this phenomenon. Childhood mania is a mental illness that urgently needs treatment. Parents of children with mania should not think that it is caused by their children's naughty personality. When they find signs and symptoms, they should go to the hospital for examination in time, so as to detect and treat it early and not affect the child's future development.