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Could Shelley Long suffer from bipolar disorder?

posted 5 years ago by TMC-4 (20179)
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This could explain her apparent mood swings on the set of Cheers. And she did attempt suicide back in 2004, which would lend credence to the notion that she has serious emotional baggage/issues. Plus, a lot of undiagnosed (and diagnosed) bipolar people abuse prescription drugs. They are basically self medicating.

http://www.suicide.org/shelley-long-attempts-suicide.html

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/12398176-shelley-long

[–] ProductionNow (1072) 5 years ago

I think there is too much bipolar-diagnosis being cited in general. In other words, bipolar mood-swings are more protracted. And going from mania to the point of delusion, then debilitating depression without any discernible reason nor incident. She could just be moody, or "suffering" from a lost career.

[–] Kowalski (76258) 5 years ago

I HEARD SHES JUST A GIANT BITCH.

[–] ProductionNow (1072) 5 years ago

there's that too. Being a privileged bitch would make you moody, though nobody is in bitch-mode 24/7

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I wouldn't like to speculate. Shocked to hear about that suicide attempt though, I had no idea about that.

I always enjoyed her work on Cheers and I wish her the best.

[–] Foster1486 (531) 9 months ago

Everybody has Bi-Polar

Sound a whole lot better than Manic/Depression which is what it used to be called

That's the Psycho-Therapeutic Industry hard at work normalizing their failures