The adult autism syndrome does not have an explicit definition, yet we enumerate the present general self-examination method here. If the result indicated that you have three items at least, then you might have to be careful! You perhaps already suffer from the new city syndrome: “Adult autism”!

To test if you have adult autism:

1. Have little interest to collective activities, does not get on well with others, cannot sympathize with the happiness of collective activities.

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If you have read part one you have already ready read five pages of the things I had to write about tonight. I am not sure how other people write. I write from the heart, and so I do not do a lot of study, even when I write a teaching from the scriptures, I write and use scriptures that I know. I d like to think in my articles I would say the same things if I was speaking to you face to face.

My life keeps me quite lonely. I am happy to say I have made a couple of friends through my articles, one Bipolar man overseas that might collaborate on designing a website with me,

and another Bipolar girl in my own city who is going to become a caf latte coffee friend and someone to chat to on the phone. Both were touched by my articles and so for fellow Bipolars and the people who love them I spend another night up typing.

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Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, was once believed to affect adults only. But researchers have found that children as young as seven years old can have this disorder. Bipolar disorder is a treatable neurobiological brain illness, characterized by severe fluctuations in mood and activity levels.

Symptoms of bipolar disorders in children are hard to recognize because of their age-appropriate emotions and behaviors. Children suffer from the illness differently from adults. In adults, bipolar disorder is marked by mood cycling between periods of intense highs and lows. But in children, it often appears to be a rather chronic mood deregulation with a combination of elation, depression, and irritability.

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Currently, there is no laboratory or medical test that would give a straightforward conclusion that a person is suffering from bipolar disorder. This makes it difficult to determine if the symptoms (associated with bipolar disorder) that are present to him or her are indeed signs of this mental illness. Meanwhile, it is very important to detect whether or not this person really has bipolar disorder to provide the right treatment.

Furthermore, the symptoms that could be clear indications of bipolar disorder can be related to other identifiable physical or psychological illness. This makes it more difficult to give treatment since the focus is to give relief to the existing physical pain; rather than identifying if the patient is suffering

from any psychological problem. And to complicate these things even further, a person who shows physical signs of bipolar disorder goes to medical doctors rather than a psychiatrist.

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In the world of childhood diagnoses, not many disorders have gotten as much wide spread attention as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Suddenly, the symptoms that parents were witnessing in their children had a name and these children could be tested against a medically defined checklist.

The Attention Deficit Disorder Test is ordinarily performed by a medical professional in a clinical setting. However, many parents, when assessing the need for such a test, may decide to conduct their own informal evaluation prior to deciding whether to seek professional assistance.

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