CZJ Has Checked Into A Mental Hospital
I went with this picture, because Catherine Zeta Jones could really use a Michael Douglas photobomb right about now. It is a known natural healer.
A rep for CZJ tells People that she suffers from bipolar disorder and made the decision to check into a mental hospital when the stress of dealing with her husband's illness was too much for her to handle on her own. The rep said this:
"After dealing with the stress of the past year, Catherine made the decision to check in to a mental health facility for a brief stay to treat her bipolar II disorder. She’s feeling great and looking forward to starting work this week on her two upcoming films."
CZJ has definitely been through some shit from MD's cancer treatment to her stepson getting arrested for dealing with the bad shit to almost get knocked out by a pap (that's a stretch, I know), so it's a good thing she's decided to sit still for a minute before she rips off a baby squirrel's head with her bare teeth. Get better, CZJ, so you can get back to scaring us at the Tonys!
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Does anyone even disbelieve in mental illness? Its pretty obvious its real.
I am no a diva given to bouts of "look at me" mania or depression. I have no manic episodes, just depression which puts me in a black hole and makes me cry for no reason.
I have a loving spouse, a great family, house I love and a garden I have made into a small showplace. I don't have to work anymore and pretty much have whatever money I want to spend.
o9+0Some days I can't even get out of bed for the deep depression. I cry and can't sleep. I would gladly trade my dismal outlook with one of you know-it-alls who disbelieve in mental illness any day.
Pfff insanity is overrated, Freud was a coke addict, nobody is normal, get the fuck over it.
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For your health.
BTW I don't really believe in bipolar II. You either are or are not manic depressive. If your mania is mild, thats an oxymoron isn't it? Functional mania. How is that bad?
I have had depression since teenage years. I have also had mild manias, where I feel awesome and excited for no reason and am physically and mentally very energetic. The depression started in my preteens, but the mania started at 23. At 25, after a lot of stresses + the spring season, I lost my shit a little bit and the mania was frequent and scary.
They tried to pin the tail on the donkey and label me "bipolar", I tried the medicine for like 5 weeks, but quit that shit because I enjoy having a functional brain thank you very much. Besides the manic problem is very seasonal and is controlled by light exposure. In the fall and winter months my priority is not killing myself and not dragging my ass on the bottom of the ocean.
Since my mania is exceedingly mild i realize there is no point in even stopping it (and when it is more severe than that, it is short lived and very very rare). The doctors sure tried to scare me telling me that I would lose my shit one day and go nuts unless I took medicine, but I look at it like this: IF I DO lose my shit, it's going to happen anyway, taking antipsychotics is not going to prevent that because it's well known that the brain adapts to chronic psychotropic use and will upregulate its dopamine receptors, sometimes permanently. Google tardive psychosis. Its horrifying. You end up crazier than you were.
Right now there is no point in me taking neuroleptics to stop "mania" when my mania is usually quite enjoyable and functional. I get very creative, I feel very very good, very energetic, every moment of life feels ecstatic, everything in the future is exciting, I am without any fear at all (usually by personality I am quite fearful of certain things). I get passionate about something, my mind becomes sharp as a razor , my thoughts are intense and feel brilliant. Everything I think and do feels magical and great. There have been a few regretable behaviors, but for the most part I'm better high. Because I'm "bipolar II", which means I'm not insane.
Meh, my believe is that "bipolar" actually represents a normal human variant - some of us are exceedingly sensitive to seasonal shifts, sleep loss, and stressors, which then cause mood changes as a result of subtle atypicalities in how the circadian clock functions in some of our bodies.
Certainly severe major depression and certainly psychotic mania are abnormal phenomena, but the predisposition to mood cycles itself is not abnormal and is normal human variation. Pathological manic depression is what happens when this normal variant manifests in an abnormal way - whether due to genetic error, or severe nutritional insults (e.g. severe omega 3 fatty acid deficiency is well associated with pathological mental illness like bipolar).
But if you ask psychiatrists, NO degree of mania is "normal", it is NEVER normal to become elated / energetic in spring, or upon sleep loss and stress. Sorry, I disagree. If it weren't for bipolar temperaments, there would be zero art in this world, zero music, there would be no novel thinkers. You need that spark of brilliant inspiration, something novel and brilliant originating from a place that was once dark and stagnant. If not for people like this, who's minds are a little bit unstable, nothing new would ever happen. SORRY.
Hard work and persistence create great works of art and science.... but it takes an unstable mind to get the spark of ingenuity going. How else can something come from nothing? Do you know what its like when your mind speeds up and lights up and everything is possible and you have so much insight? If you do, sorry you are now bipolar, medicate yourself.
I don't think anyone believes diet and exercise will cure schizophrenia
But low grade mental illness like moderate depression and anxiety and mild/moderate ocd... that stuff is absolutely related to nutrition. Google inositol depression ocd anxiety.
Google omega 3 fatty acids mental illness.
Google vitamin d3 depression.
Google chromium atypical depression.
This shit REALLY DOES cause mental illness when you are deficient, and guess what? A diet of doritos and ramen soup will make you deficient like a motherfucker in omega 3 fatty acids. All americans are severely omega 3 deficient, thats why they are fat and bipolar and unable to leave the house due to anxiety.
I have mental illness and my stuff is 1000% better since educating myself and altering my diet so as to not be severely omega 3 deficient, vitamin d3 deficient, chromium deficient, or inositol deficient.
BTW, since most americans are severely overweight and borderline diabetic, this energy using abnormality (diabetes) in of itself will and can cause depression & anxiety. If americans ate low carb and helped control their glucose intolerance their fatigue depressions and anxiety would also get better.
Drug companies promote the myth that diet has nothing to do with mental illness. Just buy xanax , fuck the inostiol and prediabetes and all that. You have a chemical imbalance, here's your gaba pill dumbass. Nevermind the fact you are severely omega 3 fatty acid deficient so your brain cells don't work normally because the cell membrane requires omega 3 fatty acids to properly bind to neurotransmitters. What you need is a serotonin pill, a norepinephrine pill, a dopamine pill, and a gaba pill.
As I understand it, she went to a facility called Silver Hill, which is in CT. It is a very exclusive dual diagnosis treatment center. Maybe it has changed recently but the Silver Hill I know of, through a friend who was treated there, was the kind of place you go to when you have a combination of alcoholism/addiction and concurrent mental illness. I didn't think one went there solely for mental illness but like I said, maybe their focus has changed in very recent years. Billy Joel spent some time there, several years back.
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Submitted by tomahawk on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 11:41pm.
Submitted by Bunny Rabbit on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 9:33pm.
--------------------It was updated from manic depressiveto Bi-Polar in the 80's.
UPDATE! No-one gives a shit!
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Submitted by wristband on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 8:35am.
Thanks for your answer, and the best to your mother and your family =)
I can't believe MK didn't include either her Tony acceptance speech or performance video. Those things are classics.
Submitted by tomahawk on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 4:55pm.
Mhm, she's already out. 5 days. Can anyone explain to me how on earth mentally ill people should heal in just 5 days? And if so, couldn't they go on vacation instead of a closed institution?
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Last summer my mother had her first manic episode after being majorly depressive on/off for about thirty years. Menopause can trigger late offset mania, and at first we were caught off-guard with her racing antics. It just seemed she was really excited about her new project. She literally had to be tranquilized in order to be taken to the hospital. After three days of lithium in the ward, and she was back down to common reality. Ever since than she has been bipolar meds. And hopefully won't have another manic episode. That shit is so much more than risky behavior. Take care of yourselves people, get the right meds and more importantly learn how to cope.
Submitted by cdawg on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 11:03pm.
I was misdiagnosed for 10 years with major depression and had to have a stint in the looney bin. Obviously, it didn't do shit since they had no clue what bipolar disorder looked like. Fuck that. Now that I'm on the right meds, I definitely feel a lot less crazy.
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This is a very common scenario, actually, and the reason is that they can't officially diagnose someone as bipolar unless mania is evident. Lots of people have mostly depressive episodes with manic ones being rare or mild (called "hypomania"), as with Bipolar Type II. Bipolar II people are often unaware when they are hypomanic, because it can be very subtle, manifesting as mildly "out of character" behavior that most people would not notice, as opposed to manic, with the stereotypical gambling away of life savings and thinking one is God, etc.
I would guess it is not that they "misdiagnosed" your disorder--they only saw the depressive episodes at first and mistook you for unipolar. Many people experience their first manic or hypomanic episode much later in life than their first depressive episode. Physicians are slowly becoming hip to this phenomenon and better guidelines and self-tests are being developed to help identify "late bloomers" earlier. Whatever the case, I'm sorry you had to suffer for so long, and glad things were finally sorted out.
Tomahawk/Bunny Rabbit (can't tell who is talking there): Bipolar disorder has NOT gotten a "new definition". I don't know what "wiki" you read, but manic-depression was the original term for bipolar disorder. It is an obsolete term, not a "new" one, just like consumption is an obsolete term for tuberculosis. And like tuberculosis is not something to "make fun of", neither is bipolar disorder.
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Submitted by TheHeckler on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 3:37pm.
I realize I can't fix the world, but there are more important issues that I would rather spend my energy getting angry/frustrated about.
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I believe the beauty of all of us is that our heartstrings are pulled in completely different directions than others. You may be compelled to have strong feelings about other things, which is completely fine. All causes need champions. Awareness about mental illness is one of mine. My brother is also mentally ill, and my mother had the audacity to call him "lazy" tonight. That's the same shit that made me move out of their house, and forced me to be on my own, no home, no health insurance, and using drugs, booze and sex to medicate my serious issues. Instead, I was "lazy and self-absorbed", and "didn't give a fuck about the world", when I could have had supporting, loving parents trying to help me get the help I needed. The stigma surrounding mental illness is what holds us back as a nation to create more opportunities for people to get help. My brother has access to free therapy through his college. But I do agree with this one point: there is only SO MUCH you CAN do for one person. Sad, but true. I can't force my brother to take his meds, to see his psych, to talk openly about what is bothering him. Instead I see a self-destructive person, which was ME at his age. All I can do is ask him to please not be like me and to seek out help now.
I just feel a lot of people don't place any kind of importance on help for the thousands of people who need it, and it's sad. I'm rambling. In short, I just wanted to say hey, you can stand for whatever you believe needs your help. I'm just glad you stand for SOMETHING. :)
"What would be more credible? If she said she was exhausted? If she said that, people would jump on her for not being credible as well.
Also, I don't think it's exactly a positive thing to come out as bipolar. Regardless of how much it may be diagnosed or talked about, it's still an illness people hide."
Keep living in ur bubble, baby. Read Fritz Springmeier, Brice Taylor or Cathy O'Brien and Im sure next time u wont come up with crap like that. She's bipolar as I am Michael Jackson.
And you all thought AJ was the crazy one!
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It is always courageous to me when famous folks "come out" about suffering from and/or managing a mental illness. I really does help to de-stigamize and show that it can affect absolutely anyone and is more common than you may realize.
I wish more young people would also speak out about it to demonstrate the necessity of early psychosis intervention, but of course, it is tough.
Mental illness isn't an "excuse" and when people say that in complete ignorance it's a little sad. It is very often, in younger people, triggered/brought to the surface through heavy drug use like meth and yeah, even weed (in the case of psychosis and schizophrenia), so it seems like they feel ashamed to say that about themselves.
Sorry for the PSA! ;)
people are fragile, the poor want to be rich the rich want to be happy,this woman may be suffering from mental illness,maybe not,some people are being helped by pills,others are being destroyed.Also psychiatry has a dirty past and is heavily linked with oppression in my mind,what can i say life is strange and most of us hate to admit that we don't know shit about anything as Socrates said a long time ago.
"In the middle of the road
Is my private cul-de-sac
I can't get from the cab to the curb
Without some little jerk on my back
Don't harass me, can't you tell
I'm going home, I'm tired as hell
I'm not the cat I used to be
I've got a kid - I'm 33"
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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. - Dorothy Parker
menopause is a beast. My diagnosis stands.
What goofy frickin pic! Is MD photoshopped in back there or what.
I don't see the controversy. I believe caretaking a cancer patient can make you mental. She's always been kinda edgey anyway.
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Submitted by Bunny Rabbit on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 9:33pm.
Sorry, but that's the other version of "making things appear easy".
Even if people leave the abusive bastard, there are still mental issues, look at RiRi - she's practically screaming to be abused with her whole public SM stuff. Don't get me wrong I don't excuse anything this idiot did to her, but she obviously just can't deal with it and turns it into something "playful". She has some very bad managers who support her with this.
And please tell me how stopping smoking or losing weigth would influence the mental state in a positive way. There's a fun series called "heavy" in which reaaally morbidly obese people are losing weigth, all had their issues before they got fat. And (if untreated) the issues will stay.
I suggest you get back to school to study some more? Sorry, that's the bitchy mood of my bipolarity =)
Edit: I took the time to do some Wiki-research since my first post - it seems as if bipolar disorder has gotten a new (old) definition; now it's basically "manic depression". I can deal with this change, but it's now more than ever a word I can make fun of, as people are selling us something old with a new, fancy name (no offense).
Submitted by cdawg on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 11:03pm.
cdawg - glad you're feeling better. From what I've heard it takes years for doctors to get the right diagnosis/medication level for people. I hope everything works out well for you.
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Submitted by cdawg on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 11:03pm.
Wow, that must really feel like the sky opening up!
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Who are you calling silly cow?
I was misdiagnosed for 10 years with major depression and had to have a stint in the looney bin. Obviously, it didn't do shit since they had no clue what bipolar disorder looked like. Fuck that. Now that I'm on the right meds, I definitely feel a lot less crazy.
be cool about fire safety
Submitted by cake coke and cock on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 7:58pm.
Never mind all that. Why does she have a boner?
hahaha. And a sideways one, to boot.
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"He stole from tourists. Everyone steals from tourists. He stole honest. He put his hand in their pockets."
Submitted by Bunny Rabbit on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 9:33pm.
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I have an aunt who in her young adulthood 50 years ago was acting "crazy." Very bipolar, so to speak. Grandma took her to a bunch of doctors. She was diagnosed with all sorts of things...depression, manic depression, bipolar disorder. Until one doctor took a look at her and told my grandma "She has no medical issues. Her problem is that she needs a good fucking. Get her married asap." Since this was the old country in the old days, Grandma got her married and problem solved. No more histrionics.
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Are you fucking kidding with this story? WTF kind of shit is this? And you believe this "medical diagnosis"? SMFH
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Welcome to a world where the people teaching our youth are making 1/20th of what the whores tainting our youth are making. YAY!!!! - MK 4/9/11
Submitted by precociousmagpie on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 7:34pm.
Submitted by catholicschoolgirl on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 6:13pm.
God bless anyone who not only has the courage to seek help, but openly talks about it in our bigoted society.
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Thanks, CSG, I left that part out--Yes, it takes COURAGE to seek help. It is so very difficult to make that first call for fear of stigma, among other reasons. And what is all this "admitting" to being bipolar (or any number of maladies), like it's a horrible secret? Fuck that!
To your mother's health, CSG. (I got a crazy mama myself.)
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Thanks, PM - you know from experience that dealing with mental illness ain't glamorous or an easy weekend at the spa. Nothing pisses me off more then when people who have no clue what dealing with this shit is like day in, day out get on a blog and spout theories like Dr. Phil regarding diet, exercise etc.
BITCHES - USE YOUR HEADS! Do you think for a minute that if people with severe mental illness thought that for a MICROSECOND they could cure what ails them with a fucking change in diet and 30 minutes on a treadmill, they wouldn't spend their lives guzzling lettuce while running at 4.0 on an incline? Shit, life isn't that easy. Let's face it, those of us who are "normal" (and I use that term loosely) don't do everything we're supposed to do to maintain optimal health. So if you're sitting behind your computer monitor carrying 30 extra pounds of spare tire around your middle, don't be so quick to pass judgment on those who are truly ill. And if you don't believe that bipolar, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia etc are real illnesses, go volunteer at your local mental health organization or homeless shelter, come back here and share your experiences.
And then shut the fuck up.
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Welcome to a world where the people teaching our youth are making 1/20th of what the whores tainting our youth are making. YAY!!!! - MK 4/9/11
Submitted by SpiceDong on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 1:24pm.
Most people nowadays are over-medicated wimps. In the immortal words of Sophia Petrillo, back then if you had a problem you drank, got a little on the side, and dealt with it.
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Exactly. While there are obviously true cases of mental illness, most people nowadays would rather take the easy way out and medicate their problems away rather than actually have to make big lifestyle changes. God forbid anyone put the fork down, exercise more, stop smoking/drinking/snorting, dump the abusive asshole they're with, wear a condom and not get pregnant with a loser, actually study in college to get a good education and make something of themselves. Oh no, much easier to pop a pill and superficially erase life away.
I acutally studied the medicalization of normal life phenomena in college. Whether it's kids and ADD or mild autism, or women and menopause, or old people and their normal aging issues, everything has a pill.
I have an aunt who in her young adulthood 50 years ago was acting "crazy." Very bipolar, so to speak. Grandma took her to a bunch of doctors. She was diagnosed with all sorts of things...depression, manic depression, bipolar disorder. Until one doctor took a look at her and told my grandma "She has no medical issues. Her problem is that she needs a good fucking. Get her married asap." Since this was the old country in the old days, Grandma got her married and problem solved. No more histrionics.
As for Hollywood, it's much better (and ahem, more insurable) to be "mentally ill" than to be a drug addict or alcoholic. Just sayin'.
The photo of the three of them is great...LOL!
The narcissistic trifecta!
Whoa...I'm really depressed...oh wait let's go paint a ROOM...it's only 3AM!!!
I don't know after seeing the JLO, Mariah and St. Angie I'm kinda liking CZJ right now. The others just need to go away. Guess it could be worse he could have put one of the Kardashiho pics up. Then I'd have to just rip my eyes out and go to bed.
@ TrashyWilma -- I have generalized anxiety too. Thank you for sharing. <3 I also take meds for my problems and it helps enormously. Yes it's expensive but it's worth it to remain sane. ;)
"People are strange when you're a stranger...Faces look ugly when you're alone." ~ The Doors
Never mind all that. Why does she have a boner?
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Even though I can't *stand* this uppity, self-absorbed bitch - I do respect her for calling out her BP and getting help. I've lived w/BP more os my life with many, MANY, misdiagnos' (?). Not only is it difficult for the person living with it, but everyone AROUND them. I was also caregiving for my father who passed 5 yrs. ago from colon cancer - it's a hard, hard, hard road. And I for one, congratulate her. Bitch.
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Submitted by catholicschoolgirl on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 6:13pm.
God bless anyone who not only has the courage to seek help, but openly talks about it in our bigoted society.
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Thanks, CSG, I left that part out--Yes, it takes COURAGE to seek help. It is so very difficult to make that first call for fear of stigma, among other reasons. And what is all this "admitting" to being bipolar (or any number of maladies), like it's a horrible secret? Fuck that!
To your mother's health, CSG. (I got a crazy mama myself.)
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Fuck it
The only way to get the stigma of mental illness out of society is to talk openly about it. I'm honest about it. I have ADHD and anxiety. Sue me.
Pretty much everybody I know takes something: Xanax for anxiety, Adderall for ADHD, Paxil for depression. People can argue about "big pharma" all they want, but I was nearly agoraphobic until I found something that literally took away my panic.
The world we live in is batshit crazy. Of course we're all starting to lose it.
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BeatABitchDown!!! You and I must be the only ones in the world who downloaded that pic of an axolotl!
'Omigod! Angelina is wearing a green dress, too!'
The tipping point for the mental equilibrium of a superficial cunt.
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Why make a public announcement about this if you're not trying to hide something else? It's not like she was going to be in there long enough for anyone to notice her absence.
Maybe it's all legit. (just like Demi Lovato saying recently that she was mainly in rehab for an eating disorder. Or Eva Mendes claiming that rehab was about role research.)
Maybe CZJ really is bi-polar. But, as at least one other has said here already, the diagnosis is thrown about willy-nilly these days and is now the "it" thing to have. Just like ADD 10 years before.
I say she's a drunk! Irresponsible speculation on my part, sure, but that's what I'm here for.
The old, non-PC version of Bipolar is manic depression.
If she is suffering from that then I wish her all the best.
Submitted by precociousmagpie on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 3:33pm.
precociousmagpie - thank you for a kind and insightful post. I'm so glad things are getting better for your son.
My mother is mentally ill and she's been to hell and back. God bless anyone who not only has the courage to seek help, but openly talks about it in our bigoted society.
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Nice goober picture of MD in the middle. Hate Him. I hope it's not a cover for drug abuse. And even though she lies about her true age, I wish her well.
I bet a big part of her "bipolar" is depression. The word that doesn't dare speaketh its name in H'wood but is typically rampant among thoughtful/creative types. CJZ has always struck me as cool enough to partake of my own affliction.
For that matter I've thought of Lilo's addictions/antics as untreated depression too, either engendered or exacerbated by her self-absorbed, plastic, exploitative parents. Srsly, imagine being raised by that.
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Since when is this bitch bipolar? When will these celebrities stop using mental illness as a trend, like it's the fucking latest thing? There are REAL people suffering from this disorder (my ex included) who can't get any kind of treatment for it, and this bitch was miraculously cured in five days?
FUCK YOU, CZJ.
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The last time
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Mhm, she's already out. 5 days. Can anyone explain to me how on earth mentally ill people should heal in just 5 days? And if so, couldn't they go on vacation instead of a closed institution?
And I can remember when "bipolar" came up 10 years ago, suddenly every woman was blogging about her being bipolar.
A friend of mine and I joked about it, that it was the new in-disease.
So,about 1 year ago, after ranting on online boards non-stop (I guess it wasn't so bad on dlisted - I spared you) I said to myself, that I could either sort myself out or go to a doc who would then call me bipolar, so I would have an excuse to get on people nerves. I'm doing quite well (without a doc).
What still bothers me is, indeed, depression, but I doubt that a stamp "bipolar" and 5 days in rehab could change that.
So, great she makes some kind of point by admitting to be depressed, but on the other hand it's somehow downplayed by the five days. Ask Britney, she's one of the most depressed people I've ever seen and she's been like that since her marriage failed.
Very clever post artofwar...spot on social commentary too. Thanks for making me love my average life even more now! Seriously that should be a PSA for aspiring goldiggers
"Submitted by You_Complete_Me. on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 1:13pm.
Cool. One of my cats suffers from ball-of-fatness. She doesn't want to stop eating. Ever."
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My cat was like that as well... He had a double chin. Shouldn't have been cute but he really was ;-)
"Submitted by You_Complete_Me. on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 1:13pm.
Cool. One of my cats suffers from ball-of-fatness. She doesn't want to stop eating. Ever."
I suffer from this affliction, too. : )
She better not touch that face whilst in hospital. Its fine just the way it is. I will kill her if she comes out with trout mouth.
"Life is an endless fucking lesson for all of us otherwise why the hell would we all be in this snakepit?"
Yeah, it certainly feels like that. But maybe it's all just random? Maybe we're just here... until we're not.
I once took care of a 5 year old with unmedicated ADHD. One of the hardest things I've ever done. What didn't help matters is that his mother was one of those parents who let her kids do whatever they wanted all the time. Sometimes he would fly into rages if you said the word "no." And one day his mother gave him a hammer to play with. A real hammer. I was so scared someone was going to get hurt.
Things can get better, Seen around London. I don't have any answers but I just wanted to let you know that you're not alone. Everybody gets lonely or struggles sometimes. Maybe finding something you love to do that will get you out of the house would help. Even something small like joining a book group or just going to the library once a week...there's endless possibilities.
A shrink might not be the answer. Too often people think they hold all the answers and they really don't. They're just as flawed as the next person. Usually they give out medicine and that's about it. And medicine's not for everybody.