http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/03/29/bipolar-made-me-do-it-burn-my-husbands-clothes-and-destroy-a-hotel-room/ A blog about mental health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:55:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/03/29/bipolar-made-me-do-it-burn-my-husbands-clothes-and-destroy-a-hotel-room/comment-page-1/#comment-1749 charles carreon Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:44:16 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2007/03/29/bipolar-made-me-do-it-burn-my-husbands-clothes-and-destroy-a-hotel-room/#comment-1749 Our culture pathologizes everything, from behavior to clothing styles, so now, instead of heading to a priest for absolution, we pay tithes to professionals to promise that we are on the road to recovery. When Congressman Foley got busted for sexing up the pages, he claimed prior sex abuse by a priest, and substance abuse, led to his moral depravity. When Mayor Gavin Newsom of SF was caught paying hush money to his girlfriend's husband to ease his departure from Newsom's office, he went off to Delancey Street to get help with his booze (not coke, not coke!) problem. Rush Limbaugh, of course, actually went deaf from eating Vicodin so earnestly, but in his line of business, that's an advantage, not a handicap. We could go on, but why bother? Every since "going to Betty Ford" became the standard line for the cleanup squad that every celebrity deploys in the wake of scandal, we've been doomed. The only guilty person is the one who can't bribe a doctor to say she's sick. Our culture pathologizes everything, from behavior to clothing styles, so now, instead of heading to a priest for absolution, we pay tithes to professionals to promise that we are on the road to recovery. When Congressman Foley got busted for sexing up the pages, he claimed prior sex abuse by a priest, and substance abuse, led to his moral depravity. When Mayor Gavin Newsom of SF was caught paying hush money to his girlfriend’s husband to ease his departure from Newsom’s office, he went off to Delancey Street to get help with his booze (not coke, not coke!) problem. Rush Limbaugh, of course, actually went deaf from eating Vicodin so earnestly, but in his line of business, that’s an advantage, not a handicap. We could go on, but why bother? Every since “going to Betty Ford” became the standard line for the cleanup squad that every celebrity deploys in the wake of scandal, we’ve been doomed. The only guilty person is the one who can’t bribe a doctor to say she’s sick.

]]> http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/03/29/bipolar-made-me-do-it-burn-my-husbands-clothes-and-destroy-a-hotel-room/comment-page-1/#comment-1748 Sherry Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:10:12 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2007/03/29/bipolar-made-me-do-it-burn-my-husbands-clothes-and-destroy-a-hotel-room/#comment-1748 Personally, I only light my husband's duds on fire when I'm really good and pissed at him. Personally, I only light my husband’s duds on fire when I’m really good and pissed at him.

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