Rob Pattinson Has Diagnosed Himself as Bipolar
November 10th, 2009 by Wendie
Okay, okay, it’s possible that he didn’t really mean that he struggled with mental illness, even though lots of media outlets are reporting it that way.
Robert Pattinson — I think his people are transitioning to “Rob Pattinson” now — has admitted in an interview in New magazine that he’s a bit all over the place when it comes to relationships. The actor said “You over-analyze everything — you analyze how if you say one thing, someone likes you, and if you say another, they don’t. You begin to experiment on people, which isn’t good for real life. I don’t think I’m very romantic any more — just manic depressive.”
Well people characterize themselves as bipolar or manic-depressive all the time (as well as crazy, psycho, schizo). It’s a bad habit that our society has picked up (I’m certainly very guilty of it) to use mental illness terms in common speech.
I don’t know if Pattinson was being serious or not — he did say that he hasn’t been officially diagnosed — but he can pretty much assume that the “mental illness” label (as well as the Kristen Stewart’s boyfriend label) will be brought up at every single press junket and interview that he ever does for the rest of his career.
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As David Sedaris says, the problem is that the truly unwell people don’t think they are. It’s only the sane ones given to hyperbole that identify as crazy; the ones licking the wallpaper and counting their eyelashes don’t see anything out of the ordinary in their behavior.
Excellent reference and comment. I love David Sedaris.
LOOOVE SEDARIS!
Ugh, I can smell his halitosis from those pictures. He reminds me of a sweaty 17 year old boy with back acne who masturbates all day long.
HA! Couldn’t agree more lethermank. I also loathe his teensy teeth.
So you’re the one that’s been looking in my window!!
he obviously wasn’t literally saying he was bipolar. seems like an off the cuff hyperbolic comment.
You know, we expect the hot girls to be dumb. Why expect depth from the hot guys? I DEMAND EQUALITY OF SEXISM!
hahaha he seems sooo megan foxish right now, she makes comments about how bat shit crazy she is all the time. they are not crazy, people just pay to much attention to them. who cares?
Nothing says stupid like self diagnosing yourself with the mental health equivalent of cancer. That’s exactly how psychiatrists describe the disease it’s their form of cancer. So good for you Rob. It won’t hurt him until one of his movies takes a dump and then see how fast the phone stops ringing.
Megan Fox is just an idiot desperate for attention, even if it’s negative. She’s thrown herself under so many buses it’s amazing she can still walk.
Ugh, you Americans amuse me, it’s quite obvious he didn’t mean that literal…
I do not understand the attraction to this man. I think he must smell like my cats’ litterbox. His nose sticks out as far as his chin. He doesn’t need gel to hold up his hair. Ew.
that was me btw