I too agree that Sheen should tell the psychobabbling assholes to stick it. Even though he is as nutty as a fruitcake.
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:15 AM, MJ <[email protected]> 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-charlie-sheen-bender/>. > 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-the-passion-of-charlie-sheen/>. > 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/charlie-sheen-wild-boy-troubled-man>. > 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-sheens-furious-anti-aa-rant-what-set-it-off/>; > 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/charlie-sheen-wild-boy-troubled-man>. > 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-sheens-brave-heroic-stand-against-the-tyrannical-therapy-police/ > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at > http://www.PoliticalForum.com/<http://www.politicalforum.com/> > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
