Mental health professonals - anyone care to diagnose Charlie Sheen?

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<p>Did you see the interview with Charlie Sheen on the *Today Show *this morning? How he’s tired of pretending he’s not special, how he’s in the rock star on Mars category, how CBS should apologize while licking his feet, how he has two live in GFs, but CBS is “wrecking his famly”? (I may have some of the quotes slightly off but you get the idea.) </p>

<p>Mental health experts…is he just an insufferable jerk? Or on drugs even though he says he passed a drug test? Or has some mental health condition made him lose his filter?</p>

<p>I sort of thought the interview was exploitative of someone who is mentally not all there, but he is the one keeping himself in the limelight.</p>

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<p>Not a mental health professional, but I think Charlie has been off his rocker for some time now. He also believes in the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories, as does his father. Or they claim to anyway. I’m thinking there is some serious disfunction there.</p>

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<p>I think Charlie is like a lot of men who grew up thinking that being white & male was a pretty good thing to be- throw in lots of opportunities & money and add substance abuse- =recipe for a mess.</p>

<p>He possibly has a personality disorder that has been coddled in the past which is coming to the fore with the stress of middle age and realizing he is just another schmoe.</p>

<p>He also believes in the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories, as does his father. Or they claim to anyway. I’m thinking there is some serious disfunction there.</p>

<p>Hadn’t heard about that one. Hard to believe President Bartlett is nutty- how I miss Leo.
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<p>Lay person here, but I say rampant untreated substance abuse plus narcissistic personality disorder.</p>

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<p>He could be Bipolar (diagnosis du jour) with his grandiosity and disinhibited behavior, but he just comes across like an arrogant, narcissistic jerk. We do have a flippant diagnosis for such folks – A$$holistic Personality Disorder :)</p>

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<p>When asked about the affects of his behavior on his TV show, gotta LOVE that he quoted Allen Iverson of all people, “I only missed pratice.”</p>

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<p>Dr. Drew was on tv and said Sheen was in a manic phase.
It’s kind of scary to watch the train wreck.</p>

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<p>I agree with jym. IMO it was a lousy show anyway. It’s nothing to be proud of.</p>

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<p>And according to the news, he is planning to sue the station for cancelling the show for the rest of the season and he wants a raise when he returns? You can’t make this stuff up!</p>

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<p>I remarked to my family that I feel very sorry for his attorneys. We repesented the mentally unstable owner of a fairly large privately held business some years ago. One by one he “fired” all of us at the firm who had represented him for years. One by one he fired all of his long time trusted employees. His wife of many many years divorced him.</p>

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<p>Unfortunately, the show is one of CBS’s top rated shows. But CBS should do the right thing and cancel the series. Charlie Sheen needs to start making getting well in his personal life his only priority.</p>

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<p>I agree that CBS should cancel the show. I did like the show, very much, but now I realize that Sheen’s character was only a milder version of himself, with more humanity. So, I am suspect that CBS used him as he progressed to self-destruction, and is now tossing him aside. </p>

<p>I feel for the other cast members associated with the show- all of them are extremely good and may have some difficulty overcoming their association with the show and Sheen.</p>

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<p>I feel sorry for the co-workers on the show, whom I presume had nothing to do with all of this, and have now lost their jobs and hit show.</p>

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I had the exact same thought! I feel sorry for Martin Sheen. As a parent of an emerging adult, I can’t imagine watching your child decompose like this, and so publicly.</p>

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<p>I’m not in the mental health field. My lay person’s guess is that he is bi-polar. </p>

<p>I too feel sorry for all the folks who work on the show–camera crew, make up, wardrobe, writers, etc.–who have lost their jobs.</p>

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<p>It would be interesting to see a copy of his contract. Given his history, it wouldnt be surprising that CBS would have built in some self protection. IMO, it isnt CBS who should pay the out of work costars and staff, it is Charlie Sheen, who needs to own that his out-of control behavior caused the downfall of the show. As an aside, people in that industry understand that their job is not guaranteed, though probably it is through a season (dont some shows get cancelled mid seasonthought?) again, if anyone needs to pay these folks, IMO it is Charlie. He is not above it all, though he thinks he is. Watch the CBS interview of him. Quite interesting. His arrogance is astounding.</p>

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<p>I know that many “stars” have had drug and/or alcohol issues and that many aren’t “nice” in real life. But almost everyone else seems to have taken the “how to behave so that you’ll have fans and will get hired for more work” course. I bet daddy Martin has tried very hard to teach his son that.</p>

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<p>Drug addiction is capable of producing all of his weirdness. I never understood the success of the show. I have never been able to watch one episode all the way through. That’s coming from someone who watches The Real Housewives so it’s not like I have high standards.</p>

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<p>^Same. I tried to watch it; couldn’t. It’s not funny.</p>

<p>Big question is: CBS cancelled it because of his rant against the producer, but not because of domestic violence, drug abuse, or using prostitutes? If there was a moral message they were trying to send, I think they sent the wrong one…</p>

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<p>That’s why it would be interesting to see a copy of the contract.</p>