If it didn't all come with pictures.
On Mar 9, 3:17 am, Keith In Köln <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I too agree that Sheen should tell the psychobabbling assholes to stick it.
> Even though he is as nutty as a fruitcake.
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> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:15 AM, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> > *Charlie Sheen's heroic stand against the tyrannical therapy police
> > *By Brendan O'Neill<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/brendanoneill2/> Health
> > and lifestyle<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/category/health-and-lifestyle/>Last updated: March 2nd, 2011
>
> > Charlie Sheen is my hero. Not because he goes on five-day benders, takes
> > binbags of drugs and cavorts with ladies of the night<http://www.entertainmedaily.com/2011/02/charlie-sheen-goes-on-a-charl...>.
> > That would be recklessly self-indulgent behaviour in anyone over the age of
> > 21, never mind in a 45-year-old actor with a primetime TV job and a wife and
> > children at home. No, he's my hero because he refuses to allow his behaviour
> > to be psychologised. He refuses to genuflect before the Oprahite altar of
> > psychobabble and blame his antics on his "inner demons". Instead he's
> > fighting like a terrier against experts' attempts to brand him as
> > "disordered" and in the process has made himself into a one-man army of
> > resistance to the tyranny of therapy that has the twenty-first-century in
> > its grip.
>
> > Easily the most shocking thing about the Charlie Sheen affair is not his
> > recent debauched behaviour – Stop the press: Hollywood actor behaves
> > hedonistically! – but rather the unstoppable march of a zombie-eyed army of
> > therapists who want to diagnose Sheen from a distance as "mentally ill".
> > Every cod-psychologist in search of a headline, and increased business, is
> > offering to write a prescription for Sheen. Under the headline "Addict or
> > Bipolar? Examining the 'Passion' of Charlie Sheen", Time magazine admits
> > "it isn't possible to diagnose patients at a distance"<http://healthland.time.com/2011/03/01/addiction-or-bipolar-examining-...>.
> > And yet it proceeds to do precisely that, employing two experts to discuss
> > whether Sheen is suffering from narcissistic personality disorder, bipolar
> > mania, depression, anxiety or addiction.
>
> > In a TV interview, ABC's Andrea Canning asked Sheen if he was bipolar<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BZA5bOZ6To&feature=player_embedded>.
> > When he said "no", and hinted that some people claim to be bipolar simply to
> > excuse their erratic behaviour, she looked at him as if he was – in that
> > other favoured phrase of the therapeutic industry – in denial. Even the
> > brain-invaders at Psychology Today magazine have got involved, claiming
> > that "the life and times of Charlie Sheen are a serious issue for us all"<http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/two-takes-depression/201102/charl...>.
> > Why? Because apparently he is in the grip of a "Mood Disorder" (I think we
> > used to call this "being moody") and his failure to deal with it contains a
> > lesson for everyone: "When you're in the depths of a Mood Disorder, you
> > swirl in an ocean of mental, physical and spiritual chaos, [and] it's only
> > when you reach the safety of the shore that you realise just how dangerously
> > ill you were." How do we reach the "safety of the shore"? Through the
> > therapeutic intervention and guidance of psycho-experts, of course! On the
> > back of their pseudo-diagnoses of Mr Sheen's alleged various mental
> > illnesses, psychologists are cynically seeking to boost their own
> > professions.
>
> > To the fury of these overlords of therapy, Sheen is swatting aside all
> > suggestions that he is disordered. He has denounced Alcoholics Anonymous
> > for encouraging debilitating dependence on a Higher Power<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewmcfbrown/100077703/charlie-sh...>;
> > he has slated those who blame their behaviour on demons from their past
> > ("Like, 'Oh my God, it's all my mom's fault!' Shut up", he recently said);
> > and he has even challenged the very language the therapy police use. Asked
> > on ABC if he was still "using"<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BZA5bOZ6To&feature=player_embedded>– that annoying Oprahite word for "taking drugs" – he said: "Using a
> > blender? Using a vacuum cleaner? 'Use' is such an AA expression!" In his
> > refusal to speak their lingo, to play their game, to do what all celebs in
> > his situation must do these days – arrange to be interviewed by Hello! so
> > that they can be photographed weeping while confessing to having suffered a
> > mental breakdown – Sheen is rebelling against the super-conformist modern
> > narrative of weak individuals who need to be saved by psycho-priests. They
> > won't forgive him for this.
>
> > The most revealing thing about the Sheen affair is the way normal emotions
> > and failings are relentlessly psychologised today. Note how Time magazine
> > puts the word "passion" in quote marks; others say that Sheen's claim that
> > he is simply "angry" is really a denial of the fact that he is "Mood
> > Disordered"<http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/two-takes-depression/201102/charl...>.
> > Apparently everything we do and feel is really an expression of some inner
> > imbalance that urgently needs to be fixed by modern-day witch doctors with a
> > PhD in personality-policing. In refusing to go along with this nonsense,
> > Sheen nicely reminds us that we alone are responsible for our behaviour, and
> > that we alone can improve ourselves, when we're ready.
>
> >http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100078269/charlie-sh...
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