The Challenge – Day 3 (and a short rant)

Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot to you. (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn offs.
Day Eight: Three turn ons.
Day Nine: Two words that describe your life right now.
Day Ten: One confession

Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.

1. Have an interest in art. You don’t have to like the same kinds of art that I do, but have some appreciation for beauty and form.

2. Love animals. Dogs, cats, horses, turtles, goats, whatever. I am an animal person and you’d better be too.

3. Be flexible. I like to make plans, but that doesn’t mean I always follow through. And having bipolar disorder can make things a bit chaotic. You have to be able to roll with the punches.

4. Keep your temper to yourself. I have more than enough for two.

5. Have an opinion and share it with me. Don’t argue with me, but I like a good debate.

6. Be open and honest. Don’t puff yourself up to be more than you are. That will only make me want to stick a pin in your ego and deflate you.

7. Accept the fact that I’m all over the place. I am who I am, and there’s not much I can do to change it at this point.

8. Make me laugh. There is nothing more important than a sense of humor in a relationship and in life.

Okay, rant time.

Charlie Sheen.

I am really fucking tired of supposed experts postulating that Charlie Sheen has bipolar disorder. Maybe he does and maybe he doesn’t. But so far, no one has pointed out the fact that the man is 45. Bipolar disorder does not just suddenly appear at the tender age of forty-fucking-five, people! It presents in a person’s late teens or early twenties. If he had gone undiagnosed and untreated for this long, his symptoms would have progressed in severity until what he’s doing now looked like a day in the damn park. There would have been signs before now that he had this disorder. Like in the early 1980’s… when he was a young adult.

I’m not saying that there are no indications that the man is mentally unstable. Substance abuse is often associated with bipolar disorder because people self-medicate, bringing themselves up, then down as their moods require. But his condition could also be caused by all the drugs he’s done. He has done a lot of drugs, after all. Years of chemical interference may have easily damaged or altered neural pathways and created this complete lunacy now. 

Mostly, I just wish people would stop "diagnosing" the man without any basis for their diagnosis except for his current behavior. Bipolar disorder can only be diagnosed with a full medical and symptom history. It made sense when the papers reported that Britney Spears had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

But Charlie Sheen? He’s just an asshole

~Liz