to think it suddenly seems 'the in-thing' to suffer with bi-polar?

[Champersonice]

This is really getting to me. Perhaps these 'celebs' really are suffering with bi-polar but I remember the days when it was the biggest taboo. My mother suffers with this illness and it is just awful.

There have been so many and whilst I really believe some I really do not believe Kerry Katona and now Catherine Zeta-Jones. Apparantely, CZJ booked herself into a psychiatric hospital for becoming manic-depressive following her husband's cancer, and now, according to her publicist is "feeling great and looking forward to starting work this week on two upcoming films". Perhaps Ms Zeta-Jones should visit a real psychiatric hopsital (not a detox clinic) and see real life patients suffering with this terrible, terrible illness.

AIBU?

yes milgram made you do it.social compliance and order.turn that dial Higher baby

Button, this is SO this afternoon. I have discussed this. If you read that I said you spoke bullshit, then you should also have read what I was referring to. Please find where I said "jumping on the bandwagon is widespread", then I will answer your question. Let me save you the hassle - you will be waiting a long time.

primary school arguing.nar-der-nar was kidding on haha so get wiv the plot,was kidding innit

aye sure you were dear!

Button,

As Champers infers. You are just soooooooo yesterday. You my dear, really are out of your league. NEXT.

It's MY thread, as in Catherine Tate's "how VERY dare you". That is the problem with writing. As the saying goes, 'the pen is mightier than the sword' - how one person reads something, another will take in a different light.

Hahahahaha - this was getting a bit heavy earlier today but now you lot just crack me up.

LOL @ einstein misusing "infer" in a post deriding someone else's intellect.

So funny and SO entertaining.

Cant tell if this thread has taken a very odd turn or if its my nightime med really kicking in now

Einstein - ignore Steps, you still made me laugh.

steps101 Thu 14-Apr-11 23:57:29
LOL @ einstein misusing "infer" in a post deriding someone else's intellect.

Oh, the irony.

Champersonice Thu 14-Apr-11 23:59:44
Einstein - ignore Steps, you still made me laugh

I was being serious.

Not sure either Mrs but looks like we are about to find out.

It's alright einstein, lots of people get infer and imply mixed up. :)

Einstein, you are a class act!

So you DON'T think that lots of people are faking bipolar then Champers? It's just that you posted a long list of people known to have bipolar and were openly sceptical that so many people were genuine. What percentage of people do you think ARE faking then in your opinion?

As much as I would love to continue this - because let's be honest, it is now a far better thread then when it began, I really do have to bow out. I shall return though, as I shall eagerly await the next thrashing.

steps101 Fri 15-Apr-11 00:01:42
It's alright einstein, lots of people get infer and imply mixed up.

Thanks, seriously. You have no idea how much that reassures me. Thank fuck for people like you. Btw, I bet you clean your teeth at least three times day, yes./no?

If you are asking a serious question Button, then I should really respond. I do not think lots of people fake bipolar and the list I gave was in reply to a post who said they only new of two celebs with bipolar. I was trying to show that it really is more common then people believe. The list I gave was not me doubting their diagnosis. Quite the opposite. Hope you have clarity on a very old post. Keep up dear.

Einstein, stop! I am so sitting on your table next time! Now really I have to go...

So just CZJ and KK then or others?

i would imagine CZJ just didnt like the attention not being all about her for the first time in her life, instead of just supporting her sick husband

Wow! So she is faking having BP because she can't stand not being centre of attention? You really think that!!!?

What a crass thing to say!

That comment was made by someone else and I kind of agreed that that COULD be one of many reasons. I also said, I don't know who is or isn't faking. I guess sometimes people have other agendas. If they have another problem, for instance drug or alcohol abuse, joe public will look more kindly on them for having a MD. Again, that is only one reason for using it as a cover up/red herring. I don't know if CJZ has it or not but I just don't like the way some of these so called stars are glamorising an horrendous illness. It seems so easy for people (famous and not) to say they have bipolar when infact it is something completely different. I agree for the main part, if bringing a subject to the fore, helps people understand an illness better. BUT when an illness is talked about and that after one week in a hospital (or detox clinic, or whatever?), and then out on the red carpet looking all glam, to me it certainly downplays the seriousness of bipolar. It does not show the illness for what it is.

And how lovely that so many of you believe absolutely all your hear about your 'lovely' celebs.

Who was it who said there is a close link between madness and genius?

It's entirely possible, Weisberg notes, that the elevated rates of mental disorders among artistic geniuses comes about as a result of the creative lifestyle, which hardly provides emotional stability. Many artists struggle against poverty and public indifference in their lifetime. And if they do indeed produce works that are acclaimed, they could succumb to the overwhelming pressure to live up to their earlier successes.

I think you are being U.

Champers I'm getting the distinct impression from some of your musings that unless someone elses patterns of bipolar follow that of your mum's you're not prepared to believe the other person has this condition.

I think it would be helpful, particularly to those who don't have personal experience as we do, if you could acknowledge the different forms of bipolar and how sufferers experiences and combination of symptoms will vary from case to case. As this is your thread and all that.

Thank you.