| Mood
Disorders are Serious |
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| • | Start
at early age. |
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| • | Hard
to diagnose in youth. |
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| • | Confused
with normal teenage behavior, drug use or other |
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| psychiatric
illnesses. |
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| • | Mostly
recurrent episodes or chronic illness. |
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| • | High
suicide risk. |
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| • | Treatment
often started late and long-term compliance poor. |
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| • | Early
treatment and episode prevention is better than |
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| responding
to each new episode. |
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