Bipolar disorder

She is an honor student who does wonderful at school.

Her parents are divorced, and her mother has custody, with us doing a lot of child care.

She has a twin sister and an 11-year-old brother.

She seems to behave pretty well at her father's.

However, at home or at our house, she is a holy terror.

She yells, screams, throws things, slams doors and just drives her siblings crazy.

She has been on various meds through the last few years and is taking a medication that lets her sleep.

We are at a loss." - a grandmother who requested that her city and name be withheldBetsy Flagler, a journalist based in Davidson, N.C., teaches preschool and is the mother of a teen-age son.

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