Oh, Ellie, what a mess, and I'm so sorry. I can only say--getting everything out there now is better than letting her head off to college as an undiagnosed manic-depressive young woman. I'm so glad you are determined to figure this out and treat whatever it is. She is lucky to have you as a mom.
Curious--how did she behave at age 2? More than idle intrest: Some kind of manic-depression runs in my H's family--including possibly H, but he doesn't stand still enough to figure this out--some have said cyclothymia though, and his dad was diagnosed as bipolar (though I do not know any of this for sure, and I do know that depression is the obvious factor). Anyway, my D7 is fierce and sometimes moody and threw famously intense tantrums as a toddler, and occasionally today (when under stress, as we saw the other day). I do wonder.....
