So Charlie Sheen is bi-winning and now Zeta-Jones has booked herself into rehab because she is apparently bi-polar. Stephen Fry is another one of that is apparently bi-polar. Everyone in the world appears to have some kind of mental problem. Even my own mother has piles of pills for her own apparent issues with depression.

So, my question is this. What is it all about? Are we simply inventing names of mental disorders so that drug companies can sell product or is it simply that we want an excuse for the way we fail to moderate ourselves? Or could it be that these trendy sounding mental illnesses are real and out there?

I have my own emotional swings and roundabouts, but I am never going to go to a doctor just to have him tell me that I am bisexual or bipolar or whatever the buzzword of the day is. I am who I am and I have to deal with my problems my own way. I am a cynic and often look on the bleak side, but does this mean I am a manic depressive. I don't think so. It is just who I am. The whole rehab thing sounds like a cop out a lot of the time. I can understand it for hardened junkies and Ricky Hatton, but Catherine Zeta-Jones might as well book herself a holiday and get away from it all if she is that stressed out. But for every Tom, dick and Harry to be bipolar? It's getting too obvious and seems like a bit of a cop out to me.

What are your thoughts on the growing bi-polar menace?