Celebrity bi-polar

I don't know if Britney is bipolar or not. It seems pretty clear that she's nuts, and she has a lot of symptoms that suggest bipolar disorder, but you can't really make a diagnosis without talking to the patient, you have to get a sense of what the persons thoughts are to actually make a diagnosis, you can't rely on observed behavior alone.

But we don't really hear about celibrities with bipolar disorder until they go completely off the rail. Most of us with bipolar disorder don't really do the kind of extreme public acting out we see in Britney.

Here's a discussion of what bipolar disorder is like for one non-celeb.