Agreed, I’ve noticed that bipolar has become the chic new Hollywood excuse for erratic, drugged / drunken, or violent behavior. 

Some celeb will be on a public bender, assaulting cameramen and pissing in cornflakes, and all it takes is a neat, publicist written statement to use bipolar as the get out of jail free card. It’s not the wildly irresponsible lifestyle and substances, it’s the disease! Stan! Get me a beer, I have a disease! Staaaan!

It pisses me off because it also makes bipolar seem cool, desirable even. Oh my favorite celebrity has bipolar, that’s awesome. Personally, I think they should keep it to them fucking selves.  Many people (fools) still look down as alcoholism and drug addiction as personality flaws, but mental illness? That’s science, that’s diagnosed and you can’t make fun of sick people. It’s a perfect excuse. 

The fact remains that mental illness like bipolar is not awesome, it fucking sucks. It’s a gross, soul destroying, exhausting seesaw between a black pit of despair and a deluded nightmare circus. It’s not the excuse to use when your careless lifestyle gets you in trouble.