[ladyjubilee]

Kevin,

You might want to read "The Bipolar" child. It briefly covers a range of mood disorders, and might give you a "hint" at what the "what would it be like" question.

You might all go onto the special needs adoption forum---many of the parents there have children with mood disorders.

Until recently, the definitions of various mood disorders depended on the person being an adult....but once those definitions changed, and childhood symptoms of the same illnesses came to be reconized, professionals suddenly found children do have these "adult onset" disorders---and now have treatments available.

Incidentally, the concordance rate does not have to be "100%". Just because we have a gene for something does not have necessarily mean we have that "something". Many genes only "turn on/off" when triggered by an environmental factor....the question becomes what is that factor--in a world where we face a million variables and permutations in a single day, we might be able to determine what that trigger is for that particular gene.