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Mood Lability/Labile Mood (pronounced lay-bil-it-ee
with short i sound/ lay-bile with a long i sound) – Mood lability is a classic
symptom of bipolar disorder. In very simplified terms, mood lability refers to
mood swings, to the changeability of a person’s overall mood state. The
intensity and frequency of these swings varies from person to person and also
varies over time so it can look a bit different in each child/teen. Mood
lability can include things such as: your child has been of a normal mood in the
morning, overly happy in the afternoon, and then irritable in the evening; your
child is quiet and withdrawn all day but when a frustrating situation arises,
he/she “blows up”, suddenly showing notable agitation or maybe even aggression;
your teen’s mood switches from happy and laughing to crying to irritable and
swearing in the course of the six hours between the end of the school day and
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