Does Axl suffer from schizophrenia?

[Acquiesce]

I'm not talking about if Axl was schizophrenic back during the time that he was launching himself to superstardom....and working hard to become the biggest rockstar in the world.  I'm talking about where his mind has gone during the last few years...and his ever-increasing weirdness.

And yes, I've read the interviews firsthand when they came out...where Axl mentions bipolar...one of them was in RIP magazine around '91, if I remember correctly.

But as I said....that was over 10 years ago.  During these past 10 years....Axl has isolated himself away from the world for most of that time....doing God knows what....thinking God knows what. Who's to know what has become of his mind during the last few years?

Axl may seem weird, but his behavior is nothing compared to someone actually suffering from schizophrenia. He wouldn't be able to control himself when he enters a psychotic phase. It's not something you could hide from the public.  Without medication, the disease would most likely progressively worsen. There's no way he'd be able to be working on this album and play live.

I don't understand why people get so upset over this discussion. Axl apparently admitted he has a disease - there is no reason to get worked up over that. We're not saying it to be rude or to make fun of him. In fact, I think it actually makes him seem more human and it allows us to begin to understand.

Being someone with a mental illness, it makes me feel like less of a freak knowing someone like Axl could be going through the same thing.  

[Doc Emmett Brown]

I think he's just an insecure person.   I dont know anything about mental disorders so I cant say.
But insecurity can make people do some weird shit - you're constantly trying to prove something to yourself, fill a never-ending hole in your life.  I've felt that way, but I dont have to perform in front of 10000 people when I'm upset.

I really wish he'd make up with the ex-Gunners.  Even if they dont get back together as a band again, I'm sure it'd take away some of the bitterness..sigh..

[BucketRose]

The greatest thing about this thread is the irony...how you people can point out that it would be impossible to determine Axl's mental condition...yet everything else in the GnR world is completely left to conjecture, and yet you seek to fool yourselves that you can "know" things about Axl and GnR with something resembling a concrete certainty.

As far as I'm concerned, this whole Internet community and this whole Internet fanbase serves as nothing but a futile stab in the dark to try and figure out what is going on in the world of GnR.  This whole venture of trying to follow the "happenings" in the GnR world is as useful and engaging as watching your fingernails.  One bogus, "unnamed source," thread after another....yet people keep trying to believe that there is some basis in reality behind the rumor...and then when rumor is unanimously dismissed as bogus, then everyone is on to the next rumor to dissect and prove false.  We know its all bullshit before we investigate a thread...yet we go thru the cycle of disproving it anyway.

Ok, enough distraction....go back to trying to determine the definite about a band that it is impossible to determine anything about for sure.  Maybe GnR fans have an intense fascination with enigmatic bands/frontmen....I really don't know.  But it is a good way to kill some time on the Net, thats for sure.

Now I can sit back and wait for a chuckle...when I can read the reply of someone who has actually taken offense to something I wrote in this post...and they'll tell me off or "diss" me.  Man....I fucking love reading shit like that.  

[SlashFan]

The greatest thing about this thread is the irony...how you people can point out that it would be impossible to determine Axl's mental condition...yet everything else in the GnR world is completely left to conjecture, and yet you seek to fool yourselves that you can "know" things about Axl and GnR with something resembling a concrete certainty.

As far as I'm concerned, this whole Internet community and this whole Internet fanbase serves as nothing but a futile stab in the dark to try and figure out what is going on in the world of GnR.  This whole venture of trying to follow the "happenings" in the GnR world is as useful and engaging as watching your fingernails.  One bogus, "unnamed source," thread after another....yet people keep trying to believe that there is some basis in reality behind the rumor...and then when rumor is unanimously dismissed as bogus, then everyone is on to the next rumor to dissect and prove false.  We know its all bullshit before we investigate a thread...yet we go thru the cycle of disproving it anyway.

Ok, enough distraction....go back to trying to determine the definite about a band that it is impossible to determine anything about for sure.  Maybe GnR fans have an intense fascination with enigmatic bands/frontmen....I really don't know.  But it is a good way to kill some time on the Net, thats for sure.

Now I can sit back and wait for a chuckle...when I can read the reply of someone who has actually taken offense to something I wrote in this post...and they'll tell me off or "diss" me.  Man....I fucking love reading shit like that.  

I agree with most of this,but what do you mean"you people"

[BucketRose]

Axl people    

[Doc Emmett Brown]

As far as I'm concerned, this whole Internet community and this whole Internet fanbase serves as nothing but a futile stab in the dark to try and figure out what is going on in the world of GnR.

What do you expect? After all this is a msg board for GNR fans and 'Axl people'.

If you posed the question: "Does Axl jerk off in the shower?", expect to get more futile stabs in the dark.

I got one for you: Does Axl see dead people?  

[starchild_666]

I have a friend with this problem... he's cool person, but something happens and he just goes crazy - speaks unreal things, hides at home and other shits. He had a rockband, but he was fired because it wasn't possible for a band to deal with his problems...
I really understand Axl... he just isn't able to do anything...

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

babble babble bitch bicth
 

[Dizzy]

For the record, bipolar disorder (a.k.a. manic depression) is an emotional disorder, not a mental disorder.  There is a clinical difference.  An emotional disorder affects one's emotions.  A mental disorder affects one's mind state.  Schizophrenia is a mental disorder.

[Cornell]

I read long ago that he was bi-polar, but more recently they believe that he has ADHD.  I have experience with people with ADHD and have done a lot of reading on it, and it seems that he can fit the bill to me.

[Pandora]

I got one for you: Does Axl see dead people?  

Now THAT would be worrisome  

[badgirl]

dude, do you know anything about schizophrenia?? changing one's mind is hardly a symptom...
and the answer is obviously no.

[Rebecca Duff Rose]

All Axl needs is some love!
He's had a very hard life but has achieved so much!
Thats why its not very nice to pick on him and be nasty about him and his new band!
We are his fans and should support him through thick and thin!

[carmiedisco12]

Yes Rebecca I agree that Axl needs love and that he has had it rough, but on the other hand the amount of people that have had it worse than Axl Im sure would suprise you.
He needs love for sure and stability , but he also needs to stop obsessing over his own personal pain and spend a month in Somalia or somewhere so he realises that as bad as he may have had it, it's a LOT worse for a large % of the people out there and he should just get over it cos he's 40 something now and the poor axl was hurt as a kid thing is getting old. Especially as so many of his fans  were abused as kids and we found positive lifes with much less 'love' than Axl got.

[Doc Emmett Brown]

Especially as so many of his fans  were abused as kids and we found positive lifes with much less 'love' than Axl got.

very good point...

Maybe if he was a father he would get over himself.  He should at least get a dog or something.

And someone is going to reply "How do you know he doesnt have a dog?  "
 

[shaun]

Good call dude ... Slash seems like a happy man, he has lots of pets... Cats, Snakes, even an Aliagtor!!!  

Axl seems to have a thing about Dophins, so maybe he should splash some ca$h and have a huge fish tank built in his backyard and throw in a couple of dophins  

...then again, Slash dose have porn star girl friend. Blond, big boobs n`all that kind of thing  

[Dizzy]

...then again, Slash dose have porn star girl friend. Blond, big boobs n`all that kind of thing  

I hope nobody tells his pregnant wife about that....

[//JK75]

YES HE IS

[shaun]

...then again, Slash dose have porn star girl friend. Blond, big boobs n`all that kind of thing  

I hope nobody tells his pregnant wife about that....

Ooops, maybe that should have read, did rather than dose  

[jet]

As far as I'm concerned, this whole Internet community and this whole Internet fanbase serves as nothing but a futile stab in the dark to try and figure out what is going on in the world of GnR.

That's what forums are made for