Now that you have a basic understanding of the various mental-health experiences to which children and teens may be prone, it's time to examine how bipolar disorder may look in kids. You've already read the criteria for bipolar diagnosis as it appears in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), but there are some subtle differences when bipolar manifests in children. This chapter will also help you to better distinguish bipolar symptoms from those of a separate (or simultaneous) mental-health experience.