The Miseducation of Demi Lovato — Pop Star Stumbles With Relapse
Demi Lovato is a bipolar pop star with four top ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100. The embattled bipolar addict was hospitalized after a relapse on opioids.
An Open Letter to “Bipolar” Kanye
You don’t even deserve to be bipolar. But if you are, you’re a buffoon. You are a total faux-artist provocateur — not in a good way — and an egomaniacal rapper who’s now only in it for the fame and fortune.
SoberHeroes: Diana Ross
Diana Ross is an astronomical powerhouse of a singer, having built her reputation as the star of The Supremes, one of the premier Motown acts of the 1960s. But beneath the chart-topping and star acting, a beastly addiction to alcohol and prescription painkillers emerged.
The Brilliance of Frightened Rabbit Frontman Scott Hutchison (R.I.P.)
Humble emotions of joy and grief ebb and flow in the music of Frightened Rabbit, a band from small-town Scotland who lost its lead singer, 36-year-old Scott Hutchison, to apparent suicide on Thursday.
Mariah Carey: From Songbird to Icon to Bipolar Role Model
Mariah Carey is now the most high-profile person living with bipolar disorder. She’s a beautiful woman even at 48, a superstar with pipes of gold and a voice that could outshine an opera singer. And now, she joins the ranks of fellow pop-culture icons like Carrie Fisher, Marilyn Monroe, and Amy Winehouse in what I’ll call the bipolar diva club.
Demi Lovato Gets Emotional During Six-Years-Sober Concert
Demi Lovato doesn’t flinch. She speaks her mind and is more articulate than most pop stars. Ask her about her bipolar disorder, addiction, or self-harming and she explains the tiniest of details.
Gaming Disorder Recognized as Official Disease
Put down that Call of Duty for a second, will ya? Video game addiction is on the move, and it is now recognized by the World Health Organization as an official disorder.
Demi Lovato Offers Free Therapy On Tell Me You Love Me Tour
Bipolar pop star Demi Lovato recently announced that she will offer group counseling to her fans on show-day, before she sings her first note.
Addiction in America: Tom Petty’s Autopsy and the Opioid Crisis
This opioid crisis is of unbelievable magnitude. Twenty-thousand people died of opioid overdose in 2016 — mostly from fentanyl. First it took Prince. Now it’s taken Tom Petty. Petty’s autopsy revealed.
Mood Music 2017: Rock Albums That Made Us Dance and Cry and Scream
Late December is a rock critic’s dream. A time to reflect and dig up the treasures from this year’s new music releases and dissect them with a fine toothed comb. Yep, Christmastime is also the time for year-end Top Ten lists. And The Bipolar Addict has a list this year in no particular order.
