i am starting to wonder if my sister is bipolar or has some other sort of mood disorder, she needs help. it is starting to scare me. she is ten and a half, and her moods are way extreme. and it isnt something like a phase like an early preteen thing, she has been like this since she was a toddler. there was no point where it really began, she has always been this way. i dont know what to do. she gets mad something sets her off and there is no calming her down no matter how hard we try we cant. she hurts people and gets very violent. one time she flipped out in the car on my other sister for no apparent reason and literally jumped her, she started pulling her hair out of her head and biting her arm, to the point she brought blood and left a bruise. we couldnt calm her down and we dont even know why she freaked out. when she was six almost seven she got mad and threw a comb at my brother from across the room with all her might and gave him a black eye. she pounces on people, bites, hits, scratches, kicks, anything. it is starting to scare me because the other she gets the worse it gets. im afraid to see what it will be like when she becomes a teenager, which isnt too far away from now. she is uncontrolable and none of us know what to do. my parents seem to think punishing her will solve the problem, they have been doing that all her life and it is just getting worse so obviously it isnt helping the situation. a lot of times the only thing you can do to keep her from hurting people it pin her to the floor until she stops with her raging and craziness which sometimes can take up to twenty minutes or more. anyone know what the problem could be?
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