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Exactly.
As for bipolar being over diagnosed, at one time it was under diagnosed. I doubt if Margot Kidder (whom I met long ago) wandering around naked and disoriented chose bipolar as an excuse for just having a lark. She also rejected the Zombie pills and went with orthomolecular treatment, which of course you'll reject as not being medically proven.
The celebs you mention acted out - they didn't use the disease as an excuse to get off criminal charged (I don't think). Obviously there is something wrong with them, you can't point to their behavior and say it's rational. Lindsay Lohan for instance destroyed a very promising career. And hearing about her parents, you can see why she might have some mental problems. Whether she's bi-polar, who knows, but she's something. Mel Gibson was raised by a religious lunatic, so became one himself. Don't know why you can't have sympathy for them, while not giving them a pass for any criminal acts they might do.
I have no sympathy for people who abuse and misuse the system to avoid being responsible for their own actions. We all have baggage it's just that "some" of us can accept the fact that when we fucked up it was our own fault not, some previously undiagnosed suddenly mysteriously appearing mental illness.
A fact that seems to be sorely missing in this me first, somebody else made me this way, society.
As for Margaret Trudeau, she may want to start taking those zombie pills because with an attitude like hers about drunk driving she's a hazard to the rest of us.
[quote]"I shouldn't have got off. I was over the limit ... I honestly did not know that I had had too much to drink," Trudeau told an audience of occupational therapists at the University of Toronto.
"It was a very humiliating, horrible, awful, expensive life lesson."
Isn't life tough, especially after you just beat the system.
CKA Uber 
