News on Dave Chappelle

[BadMagick]

Not sure if this has been posted, or if everyone is completely up-to-date on what's going on with him, but apparently he's checked himself into a mental hospital in South Africa.



Report: Dave Chappelle checks into a mental health facility
NEW YORK (AP) — Comedy Central star Dave Chappelle has checked himself into a mental health facility in South Africa, the ****zine Entertainment Weekly reported on Wednesday.

The comedian's whereabouts and condition have been unknown since Comedy Central abruptly announced last week that the planned May 31 launch of the third season of Chappelle's Show had been postponed and production halted.

Chappelle flew from Newark, N.J., to South Africa on April 28 for treatment, said the ****zine, quoting a source close to the show it would not identify. Entertainment Weekly said it had corroborating sources for its story.

"We don't know where he is," Comedy Central spokesman Tony Fox said. "We've heard about South Africa. We don't know. We haven't talked to Dave."

Chappelle's spokesman, Matt Labov, would not comment on the ****zine's story.

"It seems like the issues he's contending with are really quite serious," said Dade Hayes, a senior editor at Entertainment Weekly. "It isn't a case of him spending a weekend someplace recuperating from exhaustion."

The ****zine's sources say Chappelle is still in the facility, which was not named, Hayes said. Chappelle's representatives have denied that the comedian was abusing drugs.

Chappelle reportedly signed a $50 million deal with Comedy Central for two more seasons of his show, a payday made possible because of the explosive sales of the show's first season DVD.

The ****zine said Chappelle had shot four to five episodes' worth of sketches for the new season, but none of its onstage introductions.

[Shaolin Bushido]

Hope he's alright so that crazy bastard can get back here and crack us all up!

No pun intended.

[m00ks]

wow I just saw his special bout a month ago. n now this...

[neils7147933]

Just another chapter in the E! True Hollywood Story...

Some of the top comics in the business have some type of personality disorder or suffer from some type of depression or mental illness.

Martin Lawrence and Jim Carrey come immediately to mind...I know Anthony Michael Hall recently had a stint similar to Chappelle's that outraged those on the set of his series...

[Shaolin Bushido]

What's Jim Carrey's problem?

[neils7147933]

What's Jim Carrey's problem?

Bi-polar disorder or manic depression:

Bipolar disorder, talent and famous people
Many famous people are believed to have been affected by bipolar disorder, based on evidence in their own writings and contemporaneous accounts by those who knew them. Some of these people include:

Buzz Aldrin, Adam Ant
Tim Burton, Lord Byron
Jim Carrey, Winston Churchill, Rosemary Clooney, Kurt Cobain, Francis Ford Coppola
Jean Claude van Damme, Ray Davies
Carrie Fisher, Connie Francis
Peter Gabriel, Vincent van Gogh
Linda Hamilton, Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo
Sarah Kane, Margot Kidder
Vivien Leigh, Robert Lowell
Spike Milligan, Marilyn Monroe
Florence Nightingale
Axl Rose
Robert Schumann, Ben Stiller
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ted Turner
Tom Waits, Robin Williams, Jonathan Winters, ******ia Woolf



Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depression)
As categorized by the DSM-IV, bipolar disorder is a form of mood disorder characterized by a variation of mood between a phase of manic or hypomanic elation, hyperactivity and hyper imagination, and a depressive phase of inhibition, slowness to conceive ideas and move, and anxiety or sadness. Together these form what is commonly known as manic depression.

Manic depression with its two principal sub-types, bipolar disorder and major depression, was first clinically described near the end of the 19th century by psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, who published his account of the disease in his Textbook of Psychiatry. As described below, there are several forms of bipolar disorder.

It should be noted that this disease does not consist of mere "ups and downs". Ups and downs are experienced by virtually everyone and do not constitute a disease. The mood swings of bipolar disorder are far more extreme than those experienced by most people.

Note: Bipolar Disorder is also commonly (and incorrectly) called "manic depression" by laymen (and by some psychiatrists in the twentieth century) although this usage is now unpopular with psychiatrists, who have standardised on Kraepelin's usage of the term to describe the whole bipolar spectrum.

General description
There is a tendency to romanticize bipolar disorder. Many artists, musicians and writers have suffered from its mood swings. But in truth, many lives are ruined by this disease; and without effective treatment, the illness is associated with a greatly increased risk of suicide.

Bipolar disorder is a serious brain disease that causes extreme shifts in mood, energy, and functioning. In most populations bipolar disorder affects around 1 percent of the population. Men and women are equally likely to develop this disabling illness. The disorder typically emerges in adolescence or early adulthood, but in some cases appears in childhood. Cycles, or episodes, of depression, mania, or "mixed" manic and depressive symptoms typically recur and may become more frequent, often disrupting work, school, family, and social life.


Depression: Symptoms include a persistent sad mood; loss of interest or pleasure in activities that were once enjoyed; significant change in appetite or body weight; difficulty sleeping or oversleeping; physical slowing or agitation; loss of energy; feelings of worthlessness or inappropriate guilt; difficulty thinking or concentrating; and recurrent thoughts of death or suicide.
Mania: Abnormally and persistently elevated (high) mood or irritability accompanied by at least three of the following symptoms: overly-inflated self-esteem; decreased need for sleep; increased talkativeness; racing thoughts; distractibility; increased goal-directed activity such as shopping; physical agitation; hyper***uality and excessive involvement in risky behaviors or activities.
"Mixed" state: Symptoms of mania and depression are present at the same time. The symptom picture frequently includes agitation, trouble sleeping, significant change in appetite, psychosis, and suicidal thinking. Depressed mood accompanies manic activation. Also known as dysphoric mania (from Greek 'dysphoria', 'dys', difficulty, 'phorós', bearer, and 'mania', mania, insanity).

Especially early in the course of illness, the episodes may be separated by periods of wellness during which a person suffers few to no symptoms. When 4 or more episodes of illness occur within a 12-month period, the person is said to have bipolar disorder with rapid cycling. Bipolar disorder is often complicated by co-occurring alcohol or substance abuse.

Severe depression or mania may be accompanied by symptoms of psychosis. These symptoms include: hallucinations (hearing, seeing, or otherwise sensing the presence of stimuli that are not there) and delusions (false personal beliefs that are not subject to reason or contradictory evidence and are not explained by a person's cultural concepts). Psychotic symptoms associated with bipolar disorder typically reflect the extreme mood state at the time.

Diagnostic criteria
Bipolar disorder takes two principal forms, neither of which requires plural "cycles". According to the DSM-IV-TR (p. 345), these two principal forms of Bipolar disorder are:


Bipolar I disorder, the diagnosis of which requires over the entire course of the patient's life at least one manic (or mixed state) episode which is usually (though not always) accompanied by episodes of Major Depressive disorder.
Bipolar II disorder, which over the course of the patient's life must involve at least one Major Depressive episode and must be accompanied by at least one hypomanic episode; i.e. there need be no full manic episodes at all.

Therefore bipolar disorder need not have both severe mania and depression and in certain cases has only episodes of the one type. There need be no "cycles" of mania and depression.

This is the reason why certain contemporary psychiatrists shy away from the original name, Manic Depression, i.e. because the latter name might suggest that all patients have both mania and depression. It has nothing to do with the notion of equal distribution of cycles of mania and depression, since there need not be any cycles at all--in fact, even when there is one (or more) bout of both mania and depression over the course of a patient's life, the two episodes may be so unrelated to each other temporally and otherwise that this need not constitute a cycle. However, a significant portion of bipolar patients does experience the classical alternating episodes (cycles) of mania and depression and therefore it is overstating the case to say that the classical alternation "rarely" occurs.

The DSM-IV treats these bipolar disorders as variants of mood or affective disorders. Others types include Major Depressive Disorder and Dysthymic Disorder. Bipolar and other mood disorders may have no identifiable medical, traumatic or other external cause (endogenous) or may be due to e.g. a medical condition (exogenous).

[BadMagick]

Ha, why am I not surprised to see Axl on that list? One minute he's writing a love song, the next he's calling some guy at Circus ****zine out.

[Shaolin Bushido]

Wow. Seems like there's more crazy people than sane! After reading all that I think I may be bi-polar.