<p>Ok…so any network airing an interview with someone who is in no shape to consent should be ashamed of themselves. :)</p>
<p>HLN just announced that Charlie Sheen’s longtime publicist quit today.</p>
<p>He definitely looks manic to me. Probably with a lot of drug/alcohol abuse thrown in.</p>
<p>last night, during the Oscars, a preview of the ABC interview was aired…exclusive was mentioned with a tag to tune in to GMA this morning for a preview…</p>
<p>then, Today Show’s Jeff Rossen appears this morning at Sheen’s house with his interview…</p>
<p>apparently, and I can’t find the source, Sheen contacted the networks…</p>
<p>While I was watching the Red Carpet on E, Ryan Seacrest made an announcement that NBC had nailed an interview with Charlie Sheen that was going to air this morning on the Today Show. The interview actually took place yesterday (last night).</p>
<p>Do you wonder if ABC felt just a bit upstaged as they kept claiming that they had the interview, then Sheen goes and gives the first one to NBC.</p>
<p>I think Denise Richards is an enabler and a hypocrite. Yep, I’m judging.</p>
<p>My (non) professional diagnosis. He’s bonkers.</p>
<p>I hear he moved up a few spots in the Dead Pool 2011</p>
<p>Charlie Sheen’s behavior is terrible. But my husband and I actually do like the show. Much of the credit (for those who like the show - I’d understand why some would not) goes to the writers and the other very funny actors.</p>
<p>I would have liked to have them try some Charlie-less episodes.</p>
<p>I hate the show. It makes me cringe. The humor is so misogynistic. When the boy actor was younger I wondered if his parents had any misgivings about his participating in such a base and tasteless show during his developmental years.</p>
<p>IMO, Charlie Sheen is bipolar with a generous dose of narcissism and the obvious drug addiction.</p>
<p>Mental health professional here.
My diagnosis: Wacko
My advice: Cross the street if you see him coming.
Most of all: Don’t let your daughter date anybody like this.</p>
<p>Mental health professional here. I don’t think that I know enough about him to hazard a diagnosis beyond a substance abuse problem, but I do think that whatever his problem’s are – and a certain grandiosity and narcissism would seem to be part of the picture – they have been enabled and reinforced by the culture at large. Every time he has been involved in a violent or inappropriate incident, he’s been rewarded – with another show, etc. He has experienced no serious consequences until now from what I can tell, although I could be wrong as I haven’t followed him closely. It’s the same with Lindsay Lohan. Anyone else who did the kind of stuff she did would be in jail, etc. but she seems to have endless chances. So if someone has a personality disorder, or a substance abuse problem, or any kind of tendency towards delusional thinking, grandiosity or self-destructive behavior, and society repeatedly tells that person, “You really are as special as you think you are. The rules that apply to the hoi polloi simply don’t apply to you,” their condition is going to worsen. The very thing they need – a reality check that comes with consequences – is the last thing that they get.</p>
<p>I was amazed at how bad Sheen looked in that Today show interview–gaunt and dissipated. The makeup artists on the sitcom must have been miracle workers. I’m already tired of the coverage and looking forward to the day when Sheen is as out of the news and unemployed as Mel Gibson is right now.</p>
<p>Psychology Today has an interesting article about this all recently.</p>
<p>[Charlie</a> Sheen: Wild Boy, Troubled Man | Psychology Today](<a href=“http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/two-takes-depression/201102/charlie-sheen-wild-boy-troubled-man]Charlie”>Charlie Sheen: Wild Boy or Troubled Man | Psychology Today)</p>
<p>Another interview on the Today Show this morning, this time with the two GFs - who talk about caring for his kids. Hello, child protective services, does he really have custody?
He did make a comment about how he needed to get his show back on the air because he was “running out of time.” Yep, seems like it.</p>
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<p>Limabeans, I took PRJ’s post (quoted below) to mean that as PRJ is the parent of an emerging adult, he cannot imagine what Sheen has gone through watching his kid grow up, enter adulthood, and now pass into middle age (after all, he’s 45) with no apparent growth since adolescence. If anything, he has regressed.</p>
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<p>I agree; it would be horrifying.</p>
<p>EDIT: I posted before reading the entire thread (thunk!) and see that PRJ already clarified.</p>
<p>My mother is a nationally prominent psychiatrist, and also a fan of the show.*</p>
<p>I asked her for her diagnosis.</p>
<p>She said: “He’s out of his mind.”</p>
<p>*Like another poster, I despise this show and don’t find it funny, and I DO watch lots of exploitative dreck like Rock of Love and Toddlers & Tiaras, so it’s not like I have sophisticated taste.</p>
<p>I’m with Mimk6’s assessment below: long term personality condition exacerbated by Hollywood/entertainment cultural conditioning and a substance-induced psychotic/delusional disorder. It actually seems unethical to me that television is exploiting/rewarding this behavior by giving him air time. Perhaps there are some public education benefits to seeing long term substance abuse effects among the rich and famous–but I don’t think that is the true motivation.</p>
<p>LOL, Hanna. I love our diagnostic formulations :)</p>
<p>Having watched more of his interviews, I do think that the grandiosity, the pressured speech, the sense of entitlement is consistent with a Bipolar presentation, aggravated, as was said above by momk6, by the narcissism and “special treatment” of the celebrity life.</p>
<p>There was an interesting discussion on the radio on my drive home yesterday. They compared him to Robert Downey Jr. , and how Robert Downey Jr was able ro salvage his career. They commented that underneathe the emoptional and substance abuse problems, Robert Downey Jr seems to be a nice guy. Charlie Sheen, however, is reported to be an arrogant jerk. Axis I diagnoses (mood disorders) are easier to treat. Axis II disorders (personaklity disorders), on the other hand, are much harder.</p>
<p>*** cross posted with mmaah</p>
<p>It actually seems unethical to me that television is exploiting/rewarding this behavior by giving him air time. Perhaps there are some public education benefits to seeing long term substance abuse effects among the rich and famous–but I don’t think that is the true motivation.</p>
<p>not a tv watcher so I didn’t realize the extent of his behavior, but I agree with this. It is bullying to exploit someones illness to get viewers, especially when the illness affects their own judgment.</p>