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Apparently, a lot of people are thinking that Brit Brit is bipolar. But what is Bipolar anyway?

According to the National Institute of Mental Health,

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person’s mood, energy, and ability to function. Different from the normal ups and downs that everyone goes through, the symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe. They can result in damaged relationships, poor job or school performance, and even suicide. But there is good news: bipolar disorder can be treated, and people with this illness can lead full and productive lives.

About 5.7 million American adults or about 2.6 percent of the population, have bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder typically develops in late adolescence or early adulthood. The periods of highs and lows are called episodes of mania and depression.

The symptoms are as follows:

Signs and symptoms of mania (or a manic episode) include:

• Increased energy, activity, and restlessness
• Excessively “high,” overly good, euphoric mood
• Extreme irritability
• Racing thoughts and talking very fast, jumping from one idea to another
• Distractibility, can’t concentrate well
• Little sleep needed
• Unrealistic beliefs in one’s abilities and powers
• Poor judgment
• Spending sprees (more…)

1) Lindsay Lohan
There’s a lot to be said for not doing something half-assed. On Memorial Day weekend, LiLo crashed her Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG into a palm tree and left the scene of the accident before police could get there. She was tracked down to a local hospital and arrested for DUI. Two weeks after checking out of rehab, Lohan was still wearing an alcohol-monitoring bracelet when she chased down an assistant who had quit and was having her mother pick her up. Lohan tailed the pair to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, where police arrested the fire-crotched starlet for her second DUI after she blew breathalyzer results of 0.12 and 0.13. She was transported to the L.A. county lockup, where a pat-down search turned up cocaine in her pants pocket. On November 15, Lohan checked herself into jail at the Los Angeles women’s detention center and was back on the street in a little over an hour — the kind of slap-on-the-wrist justice that lets dangerous actresses back out on the street, where they’re free to prey upon the public with bubblegum movies and assembly-line Top 40 hits.
2) Kiefer Sutherland
Given his reputation, it wasn’t that big of a shock when Kiefer Sutherland was arrested on suspicion of DUI after making an illegal U-turn and failing a sobriety test. After all, he’s been cracked for the same offense three previous times over the past eighteen years. Serving a 48-day sentence for his September 25th arrest, Sutherland isn’t being given the revolving-door treatment afforded to certain hotel heiresses and Disney-flick princesses, instead performing compulsory kitchen and laundry duty while in jail. Fortunately for fans of 24, Sutherland’s sentence was shuffled around to coincide with a break in filming of the popular show, which centers entirely on Kiefer Sutherland. We have to agree with the wags at celebrity gossip site Hecklerspray that the producers could have simply invited Elisha Cuthbert back to run around in slow-motion, bra-less distress, but that would have only worked for 16 or 17 hours of the day-long show, tops. Twenty in high-def. (more…)

The Huffington Post features video clips of The View’s proud know-nothing in her 5 (greatest? most embarrassing? most infuriating?) best moments of 2007. Among the choice soundbites on display:

1. Sherri Says She Doesn’t Know If The World Is Flat
2. Sherri Says Christians Came Before Anything Else In History
3. Sherri Discusses How Her Abstinence Is Leading To Sleep Orgasms
4. Sherri Condones Hitting Her Kid…Just Not In A “Rich White Folks’ Store”
5. Sherri Condones Men Hitting Women Back

Sherri Shepherd’s Top 5 Moments Of 2007: Hitting Her Kid, Sleep Orgasms, Pondering Jesus And Asking If The World Is Flat (Huffington Post)