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Medication time. about to get the medication right now. this will keep me nice, you know what im saying. >> right now im on five medications. im on five psych pills. this morning i took three. tonight ill take six, you know what im saying? >> corey represents the type of inmate that provides a daunting challenge for jails and prisons nationwide. they show certain symptoms of mental illness, yet are incarcerated by the courts rather than hospitalized. >> mr. allen is in the general population uni...

Behavior under control, he is prescribed medication by the jails mental health staff. >> im a g man. thats how i do it. medication time. about to get the medication right now. this will keep me nice, you know what im saying. right now im on five medications. im on five psych pills. this morning i took three. tonight ill take six, you know what im saying? >> this is your trilipta and your -- >> corey represents the type of inmate that provides a daunting challenge for jails and prisons nationwide...

It is persuaded itself that it is brilliant when it is mere promiscuous. this is not a serious mind. gingrich is not to put mindly a systematic thinker. his mind is a jumble, lacking impulse control. he plays air guitar with ideas producing air ideas. he ejaculates concepts, notions, and theorys that are as inconsistent as his behavior. >> i dont know if thats the word i would have used. >> maybe spews out. >> what else you got? >> ive got george will, which i think is the most interesting one. ...

Admit to sexual addiction. we have had tiger woods, jesse james, charlie sheen. so when we look at these celebrity faces on a human problem, is this just being disguised as a problem? or is it something more about impulse control that all of us have to take more personal responsibility over? >> thats a good question. when i started reporting the story, i was more skeptical. i thought it was a cop out and a get out of jail free card for these people who have these marital indiscretions. they can ...

>> in order to have coreys behavior under control he is e prescribed medication by the jail mental health staff. thats how i do it. medication time. about to get the medication right now. this will keep me nice, you know what im saying. >> right now im on five medications. im on five psych pills. this morning i took three. tonight ill take six, you know what im saying? >> corey represents the type of inmate that provides a daunting challenge for jails and prisons nationwide. they show certain sy...

When everything here, everything is about -- >> buy it. can i buy this? >> instantly. so there are actually experiments being done about how you can zap the brain to actually stimulate areas of the brain to in fact change whats happening in a neurological way to make you into someone who does not have such a lack of impulse control. >> what are you laughing at? >> i just like -- its a one-click world, baby. >> how are you going to delay? >> boom. hit the button. bring it on. delayed gratificatio...

We did a "time" money poll interviewing thousands of americans about the spending patterns and people are starting to dip in to their savings. incomes compressed now for several years. unemployment is still high and, you know, but still, impulse control is hard. >> right. >> you will find a lot of people shopping at target, though. >> a lot of things you can buy. >> exactly. >> how bad -- era of volatility, how bad is it scale of one to ten would you say? >> i think its about a nine. were seeing...

Badly with women as he likes to say, of groping, so you have those impulse control issues going on. and then you have the whole issue of him being this superstar, marrying into the most famous american family and, of course, being the governor and as we know, people of power feel that were all created equal but theyre created a little bit more equal. >> if i talk to people, the first thing the average person comes and says to me i feel horrible for the kids. one of them through the magic of twit...

So what were finding is that perhaps they can be effective in office or as celebrities acting or swinging or what have you. but at the end of the day, when you are dealing specifically with politicians, their integrity speaks for itself. if they cannot be honest in a personal relationship, then they are going to have some problems with dishonesty in a relationship with the public and, of course, with their work. >> and, jeff, since we know that men cheat, women cheat, powerful, as well as everyd...

Clinical psychologist and author jeff gardere. jeff, thanks for joining us here. first of all, i think a lot of people are asking the question, do powerful men or even women have more afairs than those who are not as powerful? are they more likely to cheat? >> i think they may be more likely to cheat if they have had issues with impulse control right from the beginning, before they became powerful, before they became famous or wealthy. the extra stress of being in those very powerful positions, ...