Diagnosing Mel Gibson: 4 Theories

What's behind Mel Gibson's enraged rants? Mental-health and domestic-abuse experts are suggesting everything from panic disorder to a "sociopathic personality"

What's Mel's problem?
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Is Mel Gibson suffering from an identifiable mental illness? With audio evidence of Gibson's profane, seemingly unhinged calls to his former girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, mounting daily, journalists are confronting mental-health experts with that question. (Watch some celebrities shares their thoughts.) While the actor-director has publicly battled an alcohol problem and claimed in 2008 that he'd been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, some authorities say these tapes suggest more than a mere manic or drunken episode. Here are four theories:

1. Gibson is a textbook abuser

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