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Thread started 07/22/03 4:21pm

2freaky4church
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Does Prince have depression?

With all his mood swings, I am wondering if there aren't deeper subjects to ponder. Maybe Prince suffers from manic depression and will not get help. Thought to think on.
All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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Reply #1 posted 07/22/03 6:25pm

squirrelgrease

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I think that this would show up more in his songs if he were depressed.

Boredom shows up more often.
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Reply #2 posted 07/22/03 6:53pm

4nowneway

everyones depressed, havent you seen the commercials on T.V. for depression medicine?
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Reply #3 posted 07/22/03 8:50pm

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2freaky4church1 said:

With all his mood swings, I am wondering if there aren't deeper subjects to ponder. Maybe Prince suffers from manic depression and will not get help. Thought to think on.

OMG 2freaky your avatar is...CREEPY!!! hmm
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Reply #4 posted 07/22/03 8:59pm

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Aren't his latest releases enough evidence? Some of that material is awfully sad sad sad
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Reply #5 posted 07/22/03 10:03pm

bluelight

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He's sad because he's getting old, that's all.
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Reply #6 posted 07/22/03 11:45pm

Sandra

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bluelight said:

He's sad because he's getting old, that's all.

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I think it would show in his songs if he was depressed..
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Reply #7 posted 07/23/03 2:38am

andyf

2freaky4church1 said:

With all his mood swings, I am wondering if there aren't deeper subjects to ponder. Maybe Prince suffers from manic depression and will not get help. Thought to think on.
It seems all the DSM labels are a bit CONfusing, if you know what I mean. There are things perhaps deeper than depression. So-called bi-polar disorder is analagous to the two sides of the moon. Remember Bosch? The world turned upside down?

Often, 2freaky, we call others mad 'cos their point of view is different from our own. I've done it myself. However, if we are to view them as 'sane', that means we must consider ourselves 'mad'. This is a risk that only a few of us seem to be brave enough to take.

Henry Miller:

"A man who admits he is a coward is on the way to becoming a hero"

all the best!

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Reply #8 posted 07/23/03 11:20am

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During the Oprah interview in 1996 Prince mentioned having Multiple Personality Disorder.Sprinkle in a little eposodic depression and you get confusion .Bi-polar syndrome is something I would not rule out .
[This message was edited Wed Jul 23 11:21:52 PDT 2003 by muleFunk]
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Reply #9 posted 07/23/03 12:02pm

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We're getting a bit personal now, but I personally think the whole JW thing is a reaction to his child dying and his first marriage break-up.

He's always been a religious nut, but it seems he might have used religion as a crux for the sad events of his personal life circa 96-99.

I know this is all extremely personal, and non of our business, but that's my opinion.
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Reply #10 posted 07/23/03 3:04pm

Savannah

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Prince suffers from some serious religious diarrhea..
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Reply #11 posted 07/23/03 4:03pm

korovyov

Rhonda says she's never seen him 2 be unhappy (that's a paraphrase...read the chat transcript at the club)
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Reply #12 posted 07/23/03 4:10pm

pm1

it would make sense.
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Reply #13 posted 07/23/03 7:23pm

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muleFunk said:

During the Oprah interview in 1996 Prince mentioned having Multiple Personality Disorder.Sprinkle in a little eposodic depression and you get confusion .Bi-polar syndrome is something I would not rule out .
[This message was edited Wed Jul 23 11:21:52 PDT 2003 by muleFunk]

ditto.
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Reply #14 posted 07/25/03 1:27pm

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Maybe. It seems to me that JW religion and Larry Graham's fathe-like figure gave Prince a false sense of hope after the death of his son and failure of his first marriage. Has Larry released any new music since he himself converted? JW is a very restrictive religion. It seems to me that when Prince ran away from his parents, he also escaped the restrictiveness of the Seventh Day Adventists. Today, he is back "home". He is censoring his creativity. This is just so sad. I think it is in his nature to be a very sexy person. It is my belief that sexual energy is the source of creativity. Restrict that aspect of a artistic person, and you've got one dried-up bore.
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Reply #15 posted 07/25/03 1:31pm

Harlepolis

2freaky4church1 said:

With all his mood swings, I am wondering if there aren't deeper subjects to ponder. Maybe Prince suffers from manic depression and will not get help. Thought to think on.


He has you as a fan, how could he suffer from depression?
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Reply #16 posted 07/25/03 1:31pm

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Reply #17 posted 07/26/03 9:04am

Savannah

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gyro34 said:

Maybe. It seems to me that JW religion and Larry Graham's fathe-like figure gave Prince a false sense of hope after the death of his son and failure of his first marriage. Has Larry released any new music since he himself converted? JW is a very restrictive religion. It seems to me that when Prince ran away from his parents, he also escaped the restrictiveness of the Seventh Day Adventists. Today, he is back "home". He is censoring his creativity. This is just so sad. I think it is in his nature to be a very sexy person. It is my belief that sexual energy is the source of creativity. Restrict that aspect of a artistic person, and you've got one dried-up bore.


I agree 100%
Its my hope that when the money starts to dry up as it is now.. Prince will swirl into a panic and just like everything else in his life.. he will come back to the sexual energy as the source of creativity. But not until he hits a major financial barrier. I'm just wondering one thing.. will it happen before or after he has to sell the studio. What does he value more at this period of his depression, the false sense of hope or the reality of money.
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Reply #18 posted 07/28/03 3:02am

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Prince depressed? Possibly.

Whether you like everything he's put out, or only certain periods of work, you've gotta admit that there's a lot of creativity buzzing around in his head.

Now, though nobody had ever been able to find the connection, it's been clinically proven that people with mental disorders tend to be highly creative, artistic people.

It's also been estimated that the music industry has a 40% percent higher incidence of mental illness than the general population does.

Judging from his public behaviour, it would be safe to say that Prince is possibly depressive or bipolar. Not 100%, obviously, but it doesn't seem unlikely.

Last year in Psychology class, somebody asked our teacher who, out of all the famous people he could analyse if given the chance, (meaning a proper psych. analysis spanning over a period of time) who would it be? Of course, the student asking the question expected him to answer Eminem, J.Lo, Britney Spears, or some other "hot" star-of-the-moment.

But he said Prince.

Surprised, the student asked why.

His answer was that even though he's not a fan, he's always thought Prince was a talented, creative person, but "obviously doesn't have his head screwed on straight" and that he would love to find out why that is, whether it's from some kind of disorder, or from a traumatic event or from something else altogether.
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Reply #19 posted 07/28/03 5:07pm

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Don't be putting Prince in the same box with Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain or even Micheal Jackson, who we all know has problems. The more upbeat music that Prince is doing for other artists show that he's probably playing off a persona.
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Reply #20 posted 07/28/03 6:17pm

Gus

2freaky4church1 said:

With all his mood swings, I am wondering if there aren't deeper subjects to ponder. Maybe Prince suffers from manic depression and will not get help. Thought to think on.


I don't know about Prince. But, I do.
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Reply #21 posted 07/28/03 10:14pm

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muleFunk said:

During the Oprah interview in 1996 Prince mentioned having Multiple Personality Disorder.Sprinkle in a little eposodic depression and you get confusion .Bi-polar syndrome is something I would not rule out .
[This message was edited Wed Jul 23 11:21:52 PDT 2003 by muleFunk]




that is a very interesting thing to think on...just because he has made it big...we assume he is 'perfect' in a way...

thank you...i have never thought of it this way before hug
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Reply #22 posted 07/28/03 10:59pm

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Harlepolis said:

2freaky4church1 said:

With all his mood swings, I am wondering if there aren't deeper subjects to ponder. Maybe Prince suffers from manic depression and will not get help. Thought to think on.


He has you as a fan, how could he suffer from depression?


lol
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