Destigmatizing Bipolar Disorder

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The word bipolar is, like narcissism, thrown around a lot these days. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve been asked, “Are you fucking bipolar or something?” when I’d get annoyed over smelly socks on the floor or not feeling like going out on a given night or just suffering from the monthly hormonal shit. And to be completely honest, I’ve referred to my car’s heater as bipolar (you digitally set it at a certain temperature, but man, 78 degrees is definitely not consistent in my old lady mobile).

Bipolar disorder is really not something to joke about, though. Once called manic depressants, those who live a bipolar life have a tough go of it, usually depending on medication and psychiatry to maintain some semblance of a normal life. This might be especially true of …

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Hollywood’s Children: A Roll of the Dice

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There’s a cliché that Hollywood’s child stars exist under a double-edged sword.  Having money and, yes, power at a very young age have been the downfall of many a beautiful, talented kid that happened to be in the right place at the right time (if you get what I’m saying here).

You’d have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the exploits of a Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears, whose well-publicized struggles with mental illness and addiction have become the butt of a lot of jokes.

But some of the more tragic stories are from stars we forget.

Take Jaimee Foxworth, for example, whose character of Judy Winslow was unceremoniously cut out of Family Matters without …

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Ashley Dupre Wasn’t Eliot Spitzer’s Top Dog

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In one of the most memorable falls from grace in recent years, Eliot Spitzer went from being the governor of New York to a guy cheating on his wife with hookers. Spitzer’s frolics with Ashley Dupre (aka “Kristin”) turned the once-respected politician into a laughingstock.
Hollywood shit, no?

Well, evidently somebody thinks so … Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has chronicled Spitzer’s, uh, formerly secret life in his new documentary Client Nine: The Rise & Fall of Eliot Spitzer.

And yeah, the infamous Ms. Dupre gets a fair amount …

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Susan Sarandon, Ping Pong Balls, and the Cougar Double Standard

Not to be outdone by Thelma and Louise co-star Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon is making headlines this week. Rumor has it that she’s a cougar on the prowl … and her prey is a 31-year-old ping pong player. Although Sarandon’s publicist claims that her relationship with Jonathan Bricklin is strictly business, the gossip is flying.

The first question, naturally, is what kind of “business” a 63-year-old movie star has with a “ping pong aficionado.” I mean, is she researching a role? Seriously, what other reason would there be for playing with balls of with a young guy?

Joking aside, People reported in April that Sarandon is indeed business partners in a ping-pong club with Bricklin.

Sarandon and Bricklin, who are co-investors in SPiN, the New York City ping-pong bar, have denied rumors that they’re an item. Sarandon split from her longtime partner Tim Robbins in December and tells Entertainment Weekly that while …

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