What was his problem? Why did he cut off his nipple? Why was he afraid of computers? Why did he think he was from Mars?

What was his problem? Why did he cut off his nipple? Why was he afraid of computers? Why did he think he was from Mars?

he was a mad man

brain tumor

How do you know

A shitty character written by shitty writers in a shitty show.

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He got cucked by Rizzo.

unironically this

Clearly schizophrenia. He's at the correct age for it to start exhibiting itself and shows the classic symptoms

It's to show Jewish guys cannot be trusted.

But he seemed fine until the episode where he cut off his nipple. Nobody suspected anything.

Is it common for schizophrenic people to seem normal and then suddenly lose it from out of nowhere?

It's to show Jewish guys who were born in concentration camps have a reasonable distrust of computers since IBM counting machines helped to catalogue all of the people sent to the concentration camps.

Rewatch Faraway Places from season 5, he goes completely nuts and claims he's a martian and Peggy just thinks he's kidding
Also there are quite a few points in season 6 where he acts unstable, I can't remember the name of the episode but there's one that heavily implies Stan is covering for him to some extent

But why did nobody ever suspect anything

At the most, they just thought he was a little bit eccentric.

>Also there are quite a few points in season 6 where he acts unstable, I can't remember the name of the episode

Are you talking about the one where he starts panicing before a presentation and Bob Benson calms him down and asks him if he's been smoking weed

So he wouldn't get drafted to Vietnam you idiot.

because not everyone is a fucking psychiatrist

Because he couldn't turn off the transmissions to do harm! They were beaming them right into his head!

Because not only are they not psychologists the science itself was in infancy at the time.

To answer the earlier question though, symptoms of schizophrenia will indeed appear in extreme severity with little warning usually between the teen and late 20s. That's how most people get diagnosed.

He was schizophrenic, which was fairly well alluded to the previous season.

Also, like Bob Benson, the actor accepted a leading role on another series and had to be written off.

because everyone in that department mostly acted like a jackass, and ginsberg's work was so stellar that people were also willing to look the other way.

it was heavily alluded to over and over again. he threw a fucking knife at stan in season 6. you are goddamn blind if you missed all the signs.

granted that was because they were all drugged out of their minds

Underrated post.

Yeah that one, Stan's partially blocking the door and he's really cautious when he opens it for Bob. Also IIRC says something that implies Ginsberg's been like that for hours
Ginsberg is also weird as fuck in a bunch of other season 6 episodes, The Crash stands out because he's the only one that hasn't taken drugs

They were playing a game you idiot. Everybody was cheering him on except Peggy because she's a boring no-fun-allowed killjoy

ginsberg didn't take the drugs in that episode though

What drug was that anyway? Was it meth?

Cocaine and lsd

It's not specified but it probably was some sort of amphetamine

Did Peggy keep the nipple?

Cocaine doesn't last that long and that didn't really seem like lsd

This guy is right. Weiner said it contained speed.