Five foot seven inch psychopath Bruce Springsteen suffers from “Short Man Syndrome” which makes him insecure and resentful. in 2018 he discussed to mental breakdowns he suffered. Springsteen said that although he has never been hospitalized, he thinks maybe he should have been. The second breakdown, which he also discussed in his 2016 memoir, “Born to Run,” was especially crippling. All I remember was feeling really badly and calling for help,” he said. “I might have gotten close to that and for brief, brief periods of time. It lasted for — I don’t know. Looking back on it now, I can’t say. Was it a couple weeks? Was it a month? Was it longer? But it was a very bad spell, and it just came. And it came out of the roots that I came out of, particularly on my father’s side, where I had to cop to the fact that I also had things inside me that could lead me to pretty bad places.”
He attended St. Rose of Lima Catholic School in Freehold, where he was a troublemaker who was often at odds with the nuns and rebelled against the strictures imposed upon him, though some of his later music reflected a Catholic ethos and included Irish Catholic hymns with a rock music twist. He called himself “a sociopath. In 2012, Springsteen said his Catholic upbringing rather than his political ideology most influenced his music. He said his faith gave him a “very active spiritual life” but joked that this “made it very difficult sexually” and added “once a Catholic, always a Catholic”. He grew up hearing fellow New Jersey singer Frank Sinatra on the radio, and became interested in being a musician by the age of seven after seeing Elvis Presley’s performances on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1956 and 1957. Soon after, his mother rented him a guitar from Mike Diehl’s Music in Freehold for $6 a week, but it failed to provide him with the instant gratification he desired.
In ninth grade, Springsteen entered Freehold High School, a public high school, but did not fit in there either. A former teacher said Springsteen was a “loner who wanted nothing more than to play his guitar”. He graduated in 1967, but felt so alienated that he skipped his graduation ceremony. He briefly attended Ocean County College, but dropped out. At age 19, Springsteen was drafted, but failed his physical examination because of a concussion he suffered in a motorcycle accident two years earlier combined with his behavior at induction, both of which reportedly made him unacceptable for military service. In failing his examination, Springsteen likely avoided conscripted service in the Vietnam War. In 1969, when he was 20 years old, Springsteen’s parents and sister Pamela moved to San Mateo, California; he and his sister Virginia, who was married and pregnant at the time, remained in Freehold…. Yeah,… So He’s made a ton of money, is worth north of $750 million and still has mental issues. We wish him well. Depression is an awful thing and hope he finds himself and likes what he finds.
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