Talk:Larry Flynt

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Flynt said he had bipolar disorder. Springfield Hospital Center psychiatric hospital said, his psychiatrist Saul Niedorf testified, and the Washington Post reported he had bipolar manic-depressive illness/disorder.

The present fragment, "Flynt said he had bipolar disorder," is presented as a factoid, reported only as a self-referential personal claim extracted from an interview. There is no relation drawn between that claim and any relevant facts or history.

If the claim is baseless, it seems hardly worth the while to include.

If the claim correlates with any relevant factual history, it seems trivializing for them to be excluded.

Did Larry Flynt have bipolar disorder?

And if he did, is there any significant relation between that and the existent content included in the entry?

I would say the answer to both questions is, yes.

I can't really suggest how to reformat the entry to adequately state as much without overemphasizing it either.

I can only suggest that the existing citation be used to support whatever is stated concerning the facts about and relevance of bipolar disorder in the Larry Flynt entry.

That reporting can be easily drawn from two resources, with highlight quotations included below.

Excerpts from the Testimony of Saul Niedorf

December 6, 1984

"Q: Now, Dr. Niedorf, has Larry Flynt been a patient of yours?

A: Yes, he has.

Q: When did you first see Larry Flynt?

A: All right, I was asked to see him by his brother in November of 1983, and I saw him, I think, for a total of eight (8) or nine (9) hours in November, and the first day of December. And then, he went into prison as a result of the behaviors that I believed were a product of his mental illness, and he stayed in the mental hospital, or the medical center of the Springfield Institution, where he was confirmed and -- the same diagnosis that I had felt he had, bipolar illness, which is the current phrase used for manic depressive disorder.

And, they, they stated that he had this illness. And then he went into another institution, also a medical-psychiatric institution -- continued in Butner, North Carolina. When he finally got out in the summer of this year, later that summer I was contacted again. By this time, he had changed totally in his mental condition. He was no longer in the manic phase of his manic depressive disorder. He had entered into the depressive phase.

Q: All right, Dr. Niedorf, let's go back now to November of 1983, when you first -- when Larry Flynt first became your patient. Do you have that in mind?

A: Yes, I do.

Q: All right. Did you conduct an examination and an evaluation of him at that point?

A: Yes, I did.

Q: Could you tell us, just in summary fashion, what you did?

A: Well, ah, it was the first time in a long time that I had made a house call, because my office has thirty-eight (38) steep steps. And it's hard to get up there, and it's -- so I made a home visit. And Mr. Flynt, at that point, I guess, very typical behavior for him, had me conduct the interview for him in his bathroom. Him sitting on the comode.

And after two and a half hours I had come to the conclusion that he was a very ill man, and that his illness, as -- on the basis of my mental status examination, had a good many of the elements of mania -- of manic depressive or bipolar illness."

"the mental hospital, or the medical center of the Springfield Institution," links here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Hospital_Center

Flynt Says Deposition Was That of a Sick Man

By Mary Battiata December 7, 1984

"Saul Niedorf, a California psychiatrist who has been treating Flynt for more than a year, went further. Niedorf testified today that Flynt suffers from a chronic manic-depressive disorder. He said that the tape, in which Flynt claims among other things to have the entire FBI working for him and to have proof of Falwell's drunkenness and incestuous relationships, should be viewed as the ravings of a sick man.

Niedorf said that Flynt's numerous and outrageous confrontations with judges are the classic manifestations of the manic phase, in which the individual has little or no control over himself and often says and does things not in his own best interest.

'He's a wonderful storyteller, but he's a very ill man,' Niedorf said after court adjourned for the day. 'And he was crazier than a loon during that deposition.'"

Why Joseph Paul Franklin was never tried for Flint's attack

I've never posted something on here before, and I don't know if there will be any articles to prove what I say. I'm hoping maybe someone can find this information and add it? I'm sorry if i'm not using this right.

After Flint was shot, my grandfather, Tom Lawler, became the district Attorney (DA) in Gwinnet County, which encompasses Lawrenceville where Flint was shot (The only written information I have on my grandfather is his obituary and articles on his death, I don't know what year he became DA). Even though Joseph confessed to attacking Flint, and his outlandish reason why, my grandfather (my Papa) didn't want to prosecute Joseph because he was already facing the death penalty for his other crimes. He didn't want to, as he put it according to my parents, "bring that crazy bastard down to the jail."

There was no point in trying a man that was already promised death. Although, according to my father, Flint would call my papas house to complain about his choice not to prosecute him. He even included my papa in his magazine's "Asshole of the Month".

Love my Papa. He has a hell of a lot of lore. <3 ~2026-37226-16 (talk) 17:59, 28 June 2026 (UTC)