Annoyed by the current celebrity 'fashion' of saying they have 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.

I also notice many of those stars have not come into the public eye for publicity I mean I never knew Jim Carrey's lost his wife because of his bipolar.

After all, isn't my mum rich, famous AND beautiful

Didn't know that Crawling, thanks for info.

Surely the problem lies with the publicist and his/her brushing it off as 'don't worry she'll be fine'.
I had no idea that she has had BPD for years so when I read it I had a similar reaction ie 'How ridiculous. You don't just get it once.' and felt it was insulting to other sufferers.
But we have to know that she probably has no say in what her publicist chooses would be best for her career and I suspect it was meant more for her potential employers than the general public.