Media BJ Penn losing his mind

[Patrick Jane]

Is this the worst case of CTE we have ever seen or has BJ taken some really good shit and there ain’t no coming back?

It's worse than the regular kind where you sound punch drunk all the time and your speech gets incoherent and you're constantly confused. This seems to be the kind of CTE where you sound perfectly sharp but are living in a fantasy world. Like Diary of a Madman by Lu Xun.

 

[DougieJones]

This is not even funny anymore. He's probably going to kill his mother if authorities don't get involved here.

I think it's just a matter of time... he's already talking "if I hurt them nothing will happen to them" or whatever, so he's obviously thinking about it

 

[kuroro]

Unfortunately there is likely no real help available for BJ, just chemical or physical restraint. He's probably not dealing with a chemical imbalance that's fucking up his brain and might be mitigated, allowing him to lead a more normal life, by appropriate medication; he's most likely dealing with extensive physical damage to his brain that cannot be meaningfully treated in a way that allows him to live an unrestrained life without being a significant danger to everyone around him. BJ's lot in life is past the point of being capable of improvement. BJ isn't traditionally schizophrenic; he's severely, untreatably brain-damaged.

BJ's family better get him the help that they need to stay safe from him.

that's probably true, but we don't know that for a fact. people without cte develop this condition, too. anti psychotics might work. no one here is a doctor with access to his brain scans.

 

[IDGETKTFO]

Didn't he run for mayor or govenor of Hawaii recently?

 

[El Panteron]

Sorry to say this but he should have been locked up a long fucking time ago.
It's crazy to me he can post like this and walk around his family like nothing happens.

No reason to lock him up, he's got a desease that's curable and in the meantime you can use drugs.

 

[Versez]

So sad to see a legend going down like this...him and GSP are almost the same age but GSP went to the healthy route.

 

[DougieJones]

Can anyone intervene or does he have to actually make a formal threat before they can do something? This is going to be a Benoit situation if he doesn't get treatment.

His brothers staring in the camera smiling unconcerned

In all the pics of his mom she also is busy doing whatever also unconcerned

His family know something we don't stay out of it it's not our business

It's weird because in another video someone posted here a couple weeks back he was recording his mom cooking and ranting about how she wasn't really his mom and all the same shit here... and she was just going about things like normal, like nothing was going on.

I REALLY hope that's not indicative of their approach to this situation. They cannot just brush this off or think it's a 'phase' or something

 

[Serge421]

The saga continues...

 

[Kwic]

No reason to lock him up, he's got a desease that's curable and in the meantime you can use drugs.

I meant lock up in some sort of hospital, not a prison, because he is a danger to himself and others.
You can treat him there and let him go once he is good.

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

CTE, booze, drugs(?) are a hell of a combo

Hopefully he gets locked up soon as he is a threat to everyone around him (including himself).

 

[BJJ4Tone]

Apparently he believes his family has been murdered and been replaced with imposters. This are his post from Instagram.


Pretty sad

 

[El Fernas]

Is this the worst case of CTE we have ever seen or has BJ taken some really good shit and there ain’t no coming back?

Ferguson had a bad episode.

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[Ares Black]

No reason to lock him up, he's got a desease that's curable and in the meantime you can use drugs.

If it's from a traumatic brain injury it's probably not curable. It's treatable though.

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

he also thinks they are all greased.

 

[BJJ4Tone]

he also thinks they are all greased.

I know this subject is very unfunny, but that comment was INCREDIBLY funny.

 

[BJJ4Tone]

He actually didn't take tons of damage when fighting.

Plot twist:
It was that fat dude that KOd him in a parking lot.

 

[joy2day]

Is this the worst case of CTE we have ever seen or has BJ taken some really good shit and there ain’t no coming back?

I was thinking he may be doing drugs along with the CTE, and that could still be the case. His voice doesn't sound like someone who is tweaking on that video though, he sounds like he is believing this stuff at his baseline functioning.

Psychotic Symptoms in CTE​

Although mood and cognitive impairments are most frequently emphasized, a subset of individuals with CTE develop psychotic symptoms, including:

• Delusions: Fixed, false beliefs often paranoid in nature (e.g., persecutory or grandiose)
• Paranoia/Suspiciousness: Heightened mistrust or belief of being targeted, documented in approximately 11–12% of cases reviewed in neuropathologically confirmed series
• Hallucinations: Although less commonly reported than delusions, auditory or visual hallucinations have been observed anecdotally in case series, often in the context of severe disease progression

Prevalence and Clinical Characterization​

• A recent narrative review found that 34.8% of CTE cases had at least one psychiatric or neurobehavioral problem documented, with 11.6% exhibiting paranoia/suspiciousness and 20.0% showing anger control issues.

 

[joy2day]

It's treatable though.

Yes.

 

[The-AxeMurderer]

This is honestly horrifying.

My grandma has dementia and says and does some insane shit, but she's 86, BJ is like 46 years old.

This is horrifying and insanely sad.

Hope he gets the help he needs before getting hurts someone or himself.

 

[joy2day]

In December 2012, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher fatally shot his 22‑year‑old girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, before driving to the Chiefs’ practice facility and taking his own life. Nearly two years later, at the family’s request, a post‑mortem examination of Belcher’s brain revealed the presence of neurofibrillary tangles of hyperphosphorylated tau protein—hallmarks of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

Belcher’s case drew national attention to the potential link between repeated head trauma in football and severe behavioral changes. His family subsequently filed wrongful‑death lawsuits alleging that the Chiefs organization ignored signs of cognitive and neuropsychiatric impairment in the months before his death.