Chris Brown ordered back to rehab for two months, despite improvement
After documents from his anger management program revealed that Brown was suffering from bipolar disorder, insomnia, and PTSD, a judge sent the singer back to treatment.
Chris Brown was ordered to return to rehab for two months after a hearing on Friday.
Chris Brown is going back to rehab.
At a hearing on Friday, Los Angeles judge ordered the singer to spend another two months in the Malibu rehabilitation center where he has been grappling with anger management and drug abuse problems.
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Documents from the Malibu rehab program Brown entered diagnose the singer with bipolar disorder, PTSD, and severe insomnia.
Brown, 24, entered the program in November after an incident in which he threw a rock through his mother's car window.
While in rehab, a court on Friday heard, Brown has been a model patient. He has attended six to eight therapy sessions a week and passed drug tests without incident.
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After two more months of rehab, a judge will determine whether Brown will go to jail for violating the terms of his probabtion. his legal woes began in 2009, after he pled guilty to assulating his then-girlfriend Rihanna.
Documents from the rehab center revealed that Brown's problems may stem from a diagnosis of mental illness. The singer suffers from bipolar II disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and severe insomnia.
"Our clinical team believes Mr. Brown became aggressive and acted out physically due to untreated mental health disorder, severe sleep deprivation, inappropriate self-medicating and PTSD," a letter from the rehab center submitted to the court read.
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Brown has been doing well in rehab, and reporting regularly to community service o fulfill the terms of his probation.
Brown will remain in the program until late April. He must also fulfill the 750 remaining hours of community service, a condition of his probation for his assault on then-girlfriend Rihanna. To comply with the requirement, Brown has been reporting to a highway clean-up crew three days a week.
Brown will remain in rehab until his trial in Washington D.C. for the alleged assault of a 20-year-old art student assault is concluded. The Los Angeles court will then determine whether he should be imprisoned for probation violations.
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