NEWS: Drew Barrymore: "No Wonder I'm a Schizophrenic"

CELEB: Drew Barrymore: "No Wonder I'm a Schizophrenic"

Drew Barrymore has always been a wild child per se, but despite her unseemly friendship with Courtney Love, she is not what one would consider schizophrenic. In a recent interview with Britain's Live magazine, the actress blames her unstable younger years on a healthy dose of insanity:

Drew also had a few things to say about her formerly estranged mother, Jaid Barrymore, who she emancipated herself from at 17-years-old.

"I now hold her in high regard." Now there's a truly stunning bit of praise. And just in time for Valentine's Day!

"Gee honey, I sure do hold you in high regard."
"Aww... that's so sweet. You'll definitely be having sex tonight."
"Thank you, Drew Barrymore!"

Schizophrenia = hallucinations and beliefs that what they experience through those hallucations is in fact true. Mostly auditory but can be visual, any kind of sense in fact.

Multiple personality disorder = where a person flicks between more than one personality and believes themself to be more than one person.

I think that may be what she means. Just a thought.

I think she just said something idiotic about having a problem she doesn't have, but no one will care because people don't pay attention to Drew Barrymore any more. She's in a movie with Hugh Grant. It's over.

Schizophrenia is a disconnect from reality. Symptoms may include delusions or hallucinations, but are not required for the diagnosis.

People with Dissociative Identity disorder may have no knowledge of their other alters.

hallucinations are a symptom of psychosis, which is a condition that shizophrenics often suffer from. Schizophrenia is a mental condition that encompases a wide range of cognitive symptoms, not all of which are required for a diagnosis. You can be shizophrenic without ever experiencing psychosis, although that is rare.

I love that this article is longer than the article it uses as a source.

Thank you.

Multiple personality disorder doesn't exist. If you look at the statics it is almost entirely a United States disorder. Sybil who was claimed to have MPD and spurred the entire acceptance of the disorder turned out to be a case of doctor manipulation.

Also people can degrees of schizophrenia. You don't have to either have it or not.

oh gawd Drew, just show us your schizophrenic boobs already.

Gee, most of us just call it "being on drugs".

+1

My sister being one.

A) Was Drew being literal?

B) If you have to call yourself extreme (or smart or eclectic, etc.), does that pretty much rule you out from being so?

Yeah I know the disorder has changed name. I went with MPD because it was what CaptainAllama used. Anyway I am not a Psychiatrist but what I do know is that MPD didn't hold up and they made significant modifications to the definition and called it DID. However there is a still a huge controversy if the disorder exists at all and that there is a huge skew of the countries with the most cases. As for the DSM-IV, it isn't like a bible, there are still significant problems with it.

But I will admit I shouldn't have said "it doesn't exist" because it is still being debated. The original idea of MPD is bullshit though and case that spurred the national interest in the disorders was the result of doctor manipulation.

I doubt that she's schizo, and she may well be a talentless cunt, but I'd rather go bar-hopping with her than most anyone else I can think of right at the moment.

What can I say? I like women. Including bubbly, effusive airheaded Hollywood types. Oh, and yin/yang Pisceans.

People on the Suicide Girls message boards sure seem to take celebrity interviews pretty damned seriously. I like how someone actually offered something like: "No one cares what Drew Barrymore says anymore."

So when she was in The Wedding Singer her interviews were much more key to understanding life?

Schizophrenic is as loosely used by anyone as it may be by Drew Barrymore. OCD is commonly used by the average person to describe themselves, but that doesn't mean they actually have OCD.

Does pornography make people even dumber here?

One thing that can help you put things in perspective is the concept of vocal minority. There are a lot of people on SG that look at boobs. Presumably, not all of them read discussion threads. It's a fractionally insignificant amount of the overall that actually POST to threads, and in any given thread, there are only going to be so many of those people that will post in it. (Talk about fractionally insignificant: some of us are so jaded that we stick around SG for the discussion and rarely look at the boobs.)

People are only going to post if it's of some interest to them, be it topic or otherwise. Most of this thread consists of people interested in aspects of abnormal psychology, (hell, I posted in the John Mayer thread because it was good language practice) but discounting the minority who get their kicks (and popularity) from being silly or ridiculing others, yeah, generally people who post in a thread are there to discuss the thread. Eureka!

Funnily enough, your apparant ignorance of both the above and the possibility that we "get" hyperbole is solid support that you're firmly planted in the group of "porn makes you dumber."

And it's not porn, you perv, it's art.

Bad Morgan, no more being interesting!

Agreed! Let's discuss the many dietary sources of fiber instead.