What does she really have?

When Amanda was taken into custody last year(for starting a fire in an elderly ladies driveway) those closest to her said they thought she was seriously mentally ill..and they almost all suspected she had schizophrenia.

Amanda has been exhibiting very strange behavior for quite awhile now. She's had several DUI busts, drug busts, arrests for reckless endangerment, tampering with evidence. She's been put on a 5150 psych hold and then sent to a specialized mental health treatment facility and her parents have held conservatorship over her. Most recently she's been arrested for drugs again and she was kicked out of fashion school a month or two ago. Reports from former fellow students say her behavior was extremely erratic and disruptive.

Add all this up and it's very obvious something is seriously wrong with Amanda's mental health. Maybe the doctors wanted to give Amanda's parents some hope that she can lead a normal life, which now does not seem likely. I really think her parents are in denial, which could make Amanda's situation much, much worse.

In a nutshell I'm very worried about Amanda. She needs a lot of help and she needs it NOW!

There's no more Hollywood anymore, there's just a bunch of banks

There are serious issues in the field of psychology/psychiatry you just cannot shake off easily.

for example, there have never been any valid biological tests to prove the existence of any so-called mental illness.

so i would say amanda bynes is probably severely unhappy with her life and has some authority/impulse problems. That's all i can say in my book.

Yes, schizophrenia is real. No one here has diagnosed her, but she could be schizophrenic.

She's not just unhappy. She has some serious psych problem, exacerbated by pot and alcohol.

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"As of 2013 there is no objective test for schizophrenia and the scientific validity of schizophrenia, and its defining symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations, have been questioned. No biological markers or physiological tests that can be used to diagnose schizophrenia have been found, and there is no clear evidence that the concept of schizophrenia is a valid construct."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis_of_schizophrenia

Indeed. But the disease is real--you disagree? From the same article: "The diagnosis of schizophrenia is based on criteria in either the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, version DSM-IV-TR, or the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, the ICD-10.[1] These criteria use the self-reported experiences of the person and reported abnormalities in behavior, followed by a clinical assessment by a mental health professional. Symptoms associated with schizophrenia occur along a continuum in the population and must reach a certain severity before a diagnosis is made.[2]"

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It seems to me she was late to get it then. Most people come down with it from 18-22.

It's actually more common for females to be diagnosed in their late 20's. Males tend to develop it in the age range of 18-21, while females tend to develop it from 25-29 (which Amanda is). There's no hard and fast rule of when it can be diagnosed but females tend to develop certain mental disorders slightly later on in life than males.

Not too late. She's, what, 25 now? Her behavior was certainly erratic in 2009, when she claimed she was quitting acting. Since then, she began posting erratic tweets, doing drugs, publically undressing and making crazy plans. She lost her license. She was caught smoking weed WHILE driving.

Everyone assumed her quirky behavior was wackiness. Her comedy was probably partially fueled by mental illness.

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