ronaldmcdonald
06-26-2012, 12:49 PM
When those of you reading watched Growing Pains during its last season on ABC, did you think that Leonardo DiCaprio would become a huge movie star after his tenure on the show ended? To answer my own question, I didnt.
But look at DiCaprio now, in big-screen multiplex films such as J. Edgar and The Aviator (along with the upcoming Django Unchained).
Besides his Growing Pains tenure, I believe DiCaprio did his best acting job as Howard Hughes in The Aviator.
As many of you know, Howard Hughes, in spite of his movie director success, lived with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), yet up until his Mental Health decline in later years that I believe led him to his death from Kidney Failure on April 5, 1976, Hughes lived a great life.
It wasnt til after Hughes died that he was posthumously diagnosed with OCD. I myself live with the disorder, yet manage it very well despite it with help from medication.
Not to get too off topic, but there are different forms of OCD, not just germaphobia and taking showers as stigmatizers (including myself before my own diagnosis) believe.
When I get an obsessive idea, I personally cannot shake the idea off, no matter how hard I try through will power alone.
I consider myself lucky I was diagnosed at an early age (17) so I could avoid winding up like Howard Hughes late in his life.
But look at DiCaprio now, in big-screen multiplex films such as J. Edgar and The Aviator (along with the upcoming Django Unchained).
Besides his Growing Pains tenure, I believe DiCaprio did his best acting job as Howard Hughes in The Aviator.
As many of you know, Howard Hughes, in spite of his movie director success, lived with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), yet up until his Mental Health decline in later years that I believe led him to his death from Kidney Failure on April 5, 1976, Hughes lived a great life.
It wasnt til after Hughes died that he was posthumously diagnosed with OCD. I myself live with the disorder, yet manage it very well despite it with help from medication.
Not to get too off topic, but there are different forms of OCD, not just germaphobia and taking showers as stigmatizers (including myself before my own diagnosis) believe.
When I get an obsessive idea, I personally cannot shake the idea off, no matter how hard I try through will power alone.
I consider myself lucky I was diagnosed at an early age (17) so I could avoid winding up like Howard Hughes late in his life.