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On April 4, 1965, Robert Downey Jr. was born in New York. He started acting at a very young age. In the 1980s he began appearing on Saturday Night Live. Given the extraordinary life he had been offered, he struggled to pursue his dreams. Even though he had a great life, at the same time he was slowly getting worse as he struggled with drug use. Downey was born and raised in a family of actors and actresses. His father Robert Downey Sr. was a famous actor in the 1960s and his mother Elsie was an actress who helped inspire him to enter the acting field. Downey was only thirteen when his parents divorced. He eventually moved to Los Angeles with his father. At the age of sixteen Downey decided to drop out of school and return to New York with his mother. By the 1980s Downey had his life together and appeared in many films, such as Baby It's You, Firstborn, Weird Science and Back to school. Shortly after Downey became a major success in his acting career, his struggle with substance abuse began to worsen. Around age eight, his father introduced Downey to drugs. His addiction began to become serious when he reached his twenties. When he starred in the film Less Than Zero, he played the role of a cocaine addict, which suited him well. Downey said that: "Until that movie, I was taking drugs after work and on weekends." He then said: "Maybe I would have shown up hung over on set, but no more than the stuntman. Things changed in Less than Zero. I was playing this drugged up fagot kid and, for me, the role was like the ghost of Christmas Future. The character was an exaggeration of myself. Then things changed and, in a way, I became an exaggeration of the character. That last... half of the paper.... After meeting Robert Downey Jr. in the last few years he has shown and expressed his psychological disorders to me. It seems like every time Downey tries to get his life together, he overloads himself, which stresses him out is a symptom of bipolar disorder, so when he goes through one of his episodes. , that's when he breaks his streak of sobriety and goes down hill again, making it extremely difficult to get back to where he should be, it takes as long as Downey hits rock bottom before he realizes how much he has corrupted and influenced not just his life, but also his friends and family who are trying to help him get better. This document is completely fictitious, the person mentioned in the evaluation has never actually been evaluated and the author of the report is not qualified to conduct psychological evaluations.