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A long history of mental illness..


Roseanne has been in mental institutions on and off since she was 17. Abuse by both parents, hit by car as a teen, traumatic brain injury, Multiple personality disorder..she says she has 7 different personalities inside her and now under control.

She ruined her career/life with a single tweet.

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If she honestly has mental disease then why is everyone ragging on her? Not cool.

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Mental illness doesn't make a person a racist. Roseanne has a long history of racism so it wasn't a single tweet. It was the final straw.

Some people like to troll aka: be outrageous for attention, to get a reaction or publicity. Howard Stern used to be like that, also Joan Rivers and now Trump.

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Yep, mentally ill and racist. One does not excuse the other. If she refuses to get her illness under control, and clearly it's not, then she should absolutely be kept in check for unacceptable behavior.

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Fake News!!!

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You must be joking. Do some research. She's been off her nut for a LONG time.

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She pooped in her neighbors yard and then lied about it

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I wouldn't say she has multiple personality disorder, more like borderline personality disorder. And the tweet thing may have been deliberate in order to get herself fired. You never know. Still, the media reaction is inappropriate as there have been plenty of other celebrities who have made racist comments and they some how never got the level of reaction as this (even that Seinfield guy, what was his name?). Anyway...

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This. Her old claim of disassociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder) was all bull, and she quietly dropped it after a few years. And I've heard that she admitted that her claims of childhood sexual abuse were lies, that she said that to "shake up the family", and no I don't have a link or proof this was said in another discussion about her.

She seems to have one of the nastier personality disorders, her behavior is that of someone who has no respect for other people and their beliefs and standards, rather than that of someone who has a dicey relationship with reality. I wouldn't want to guess which personality disorder, as she behaves in a narcissistic and histrionic manner, has the temper of a borderline, and the conscience of a sociopath. She's done some brilliant things in the past, but putting all those people out of work and then tweeting that they should be showing more support? That's the action of an asshole, not someone genuinely crazy.

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