severely etarded
Bluelight Crew
I have bipolar...in the early stages of a manic episode I acted very much like Sheen is acting.
My family filmed me once, and when I look back at the video it's quite similar to the videos of Sheen in the way he behaves.
Everything I was saying was important. Too important to let other people interrupt, if only for a couple of moments. Sleep was a waste of time and unnecessary, and I looked haggard. I could rhyme very easily and come up with strange and interesting sentences and poems.
Very important thoughts sprang to mind more quickly than I could tell them, and I had to tell them.
I was easily offended, and somewhat aggressive. I felt special, not just confident but I began to relate to Jesus Christ...I read passages from the Bible..I didn't think I was Jesus, but that I was LIKE Jesus.
When I took my medication I came down.
Also my Dad has bipolar...he used to drink and it would make him manic. Same stuff - talking, constantly. He wouldn't sleep for a week, or would sleep an hour here and there, over two weeks.
He was confrontational, aggressive, he was going to "divine the dead" with astrolabes and quartz .
I.e bring back the dead, with a globe of the spherical astrolabe and a bunch of rocks.
He would stand on his balcony screaming - his enemy was the local government. He screamed all night, for three or four nights until his voice was hoarse.
He set up incense and listened to Arabic radio full blast. Eventually he trashed his apartment, destroyed his computer, his television, his microwave, and threw thousands of dollars off his balcony.
He lost his job, which was a pretty high paying one, and didn't care (he had gone to China on some delegation and in meetings with Chinese officials he would put take his shoes off and put his feet on the table).
He also abused and harrassed his employer.
Eventually the police put him in a mental hospital. But he's had manic episodes, where it just wears off, over a month or so (a week or two acting weird, a week or two acting very weird...perhaps not psychotic if he avoids drinking...then back to normal).
Anyway alot of what Sheen says, and how he acts, reminds me of my old man, and makes me think he's somewhat manic.
I guess we'll see...if he can avoid going out and gambling, or drinking he might be okay.
The quality of 'Sheen's Korner' is somewhat less than his previous works.
I think to some extent everyone has some mild mental disorders like ADD/ADHD, deprsssioN, bipolar. It makes us human characters. As long as it doesn't cause any major problems I don't see any reason in treating it. I have mild bipolar but my doc said it's nowhere near severe enough to require treatment.

