Guys, I think I have this Amanda Bynes thing figured out. Although her behavior has seemed mystifyingly strange lately, what with racking up those endless driving violations and all (I mean, when Lindsay Lohan bags on someone for being a public menace you know the situation's officially gotten out of control), Bynes actually started flying her freak flag more than two years ago. 
 
 I'd totally forgotten about this, but Bynes made headlines in June of 2010 when she jumped on Twitter at 3 a.m. to announce that she was done with acting. "I know 24 is a young age to retire," she wrote, "but you heard it here first I've retired." 
 
 She "unretired" a whopping 35 days later, and according to some sources, the retirement was all a cover-up for the real reason she wasn't being seen on the big screen: Hollywood was sick of her increasingly bizarre behavior. 
 
 According to the Daily Beast, in the spring of 2010, Bynes was kicked out of the Farrelly brothers’ film, Hall Pass. Although Bynes tweeted that she left because of "scheduling conflicts," word on the street says otherwise: 
 
 One source said Bynes had acted strangely during the filming—paranoid and fearful. Star Owen Wilson and the Farrellys wanted Bynes to continue in the film if she could get a hold of herself, but nothing changed—the co-directors, the source said, kept the cameras running in between takes to show Bynes' odd behavior in case anyone from her camp decided to sue. 
 
 Bynes was named one of People's "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" in 2006, but before her "retirement," she had a number of professional missteps: a failed clothing line, a canned TV pilot, and a movie that went straight to video. And despite the fact that she retired from retiring, she hasn't worked since 2010's Easy A. 
 
 More from The Stir: Amanda Bynes May Have More Serious Problems Than Her Driving Skills (VIDEO) 
 
 
 
 So basically she went from being a hugely popular child star to a young woman who can't find success in Hollywood. Is it any wonder she's been headed straight for a giant meltdown? I'm not saying it's a valid excuse, I'm just saying that based on historical evidence, the odds on her transitioning to adulthood as a healthy, well-adjusted person weren't good. 
 
 Who knows what's going to happen next with Amanda Bynes, but based on the reports of her mental instability -- including yesterday's disturbing behavior in a clothing store dressing room -- it sounds like she's headed for a pretty big fall. Here's hoping someone can convince her to get some help before it's too late. 
 
 Do you think Amanda Bynes' early fame contributed to her current problems? 
 
 
 
 
 
 Image via Maxim ||||| In a recent series of strange antics on Twitter, Amanda Bynes revealed that she is creating a clothing and perfume line and allegedly suing celebrity blogger Perez Hilton and Us Weekly -- all in the space of five minutes. 
 
 On Thursday, the troubled actress took to the microblogging site to vent about the media: 
 
 “I'm suing @usweekly & @perezhilton for continuing to act like I'm doing something wrong by tweeting and walking to photoshoots. F--- you!!!!” she wrote. 
 
 Five minutes later, she tweeted, “Check my twitter for updates on my clothing and perfume line plus pix!” 
 
 PHOTOS: The 20 Most Dramatic Child Star Transformations 
 
 The bizarre tweets from Bynes could be a part of her recent image change, which she has documented on the site. On Tuesday and into the wee hours of Wednesday morning, Bynes posted a combined eight different pictures of herself, all taken in a mirror, in what appears to be the same outfit. Her new look includes cheek piercings, an abundance of makeup and blond hair. 
 
 In the middle of the photo spree, she tweeted: “My selfies were taken after those paparazzi photos. I was walking to a photo shoot for my clothing line & perfume line that's in the works!” 
 
 Bynes is referring to the photos published on Us Weekly’s website of the actress walking around New York City with a shirt over her face. 
 
 The publication reported that the Easy A star “looked like she was ‘pretending to be a ghost,’ while a second eyewitness notes that she was ‘walking into things because she couldn't see.’ ” 
 
 Even more bizarre than the shirt-head incident: “She ducked into a nearby McDonald's, where she ordered a coffee and a soda and sipped both simultaneously,” reports Us. 
 
 PHOTOS: Amanda Bynes' Career in Photos: From Child Star to Troubled Adult 
 
 Bynes sparked previous media reaction March 21 when she tweeted about rapper Drake: 
 
 “I want @drake to murder my vagina” 
 
 Bynes rejoined the Twitterverse -- via an unverified account -- only two months ago, after deactivating her previous account. And although she does tweet her fair share of “selfies,” this latest blast has many concerned for the troubled star, who was arrested for a DUI back in April. ||||| "I'm really ashamed and embarrassed with the things I said. I can't turn back time but if I could, I would," the actress says in a candid interview for Paper Magazine's cover story. 
 
 Times have changed for Amanda Bynes who, after spending the last several years retiring from acting and avoiding the spotlight, has opened up to Paper Magazine for its latest cover story about her drug use and feeling ready to return to the spotlight after enduring a "dark, sad world." 
 
 Though the actress hopes to design a clothing line — she is currently enrolled at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising to receive her Associate’s of Art degree in Merchandise Product Development — Bynes confirmed that she wants to "get back into acting first" after enduring years of drug abuse. 
 
 Bynes reflected on when she first started using drugs, recalling smoking marijuana at the age of 16: "Even though everyone thought I was the 'good girl,' I did smoke marijuana from that point on." She also explained that despite smoking, she "didn’t get addicted" and "wasn’t abusing it." 
 
 Bynes revealed that she later progressed to trying harder drugs such as MDMA, cocaine and ecstasy: "[I tried] cocaine three times but I never got high from cocaine. I never liked it. It was never my drug of choice." It wasn’t until she tried Adderall that the actress said it became a frequent routine: "I definitely abused Adderall." 
 
 Bynes said that when she was filming the 2007 musical Hairspray — which she described as "the most amazing experience I’ve had on set" — she remembered "reading an article in a magazine that [called Adderall] 'the new skinny pill' and they were talking about how women were taking it to stay thin. I was like, 'Well, I have to get my hands on that.'" The actress admitted that she was able to get a prescription after going "to a psychiatrist and faking the symptoms of ADD (attention deficit disorder)." 
 
 Bynes’ Adderall abuse continued to grow worse while filming the 2010 film Hall Pass. “When I was doing Hall Pass, I remember being in the trailer and I used to chew the Adderall tablets because I thought they made me [more] high [that way]," she recalled. "I remember chewing on a bunch of them and literally being scatterbrained and not being able to focus on my lines or memorize them for that matter." 
 
 While filming, Bynes said she remembered seeing her "image on the screen and literally tripping out and thinking my arm looked so fat because it was in the foreground or whatever and I remember rushing off set and thinking, 'Oh my god, I look so bad." 
 
 Ultimately, "the mixture of being so high that I couldn't remember my lines and not liking my appearance" prompted Bynes to pull out of the film, despite reports saying she was fired. "I made a bunch of mistakes but I wasn't fired," Bynes explained. "I did leave ... it was definitely completely unprofessional of me to walk off and leave them stranded when they'd spent so much money on a set and crew and camera equipment and everything." 
 
 Bynes continued to have a negative body image after seeing a screening of her comedy Easy A, to which the actress explained that she “couldn’t stand” her appearance or “performance.” She also admitted that she endured depression for "four to six months" after seeing herself dressed as a man for her character in She's the Man. 
 
 "I was absolutely convinced I needed to stop acting after seeing it [Easy A]," she said, adding that her thoughts were possibly a result of her being "high on marijuana." 
 
 Bynes then infamously announced her retirement on Twitter, something she considers "stupid" when looking back. 
 
 "If I was going to retire [the right way], I should've done it in a press statement — but I did it on Twitter," the actress said. "Real classy! But, you know, I was high and I was like, 'You know what? I am so over this,' so I just did it." 
 
 After stepping away from the spotlight, Bynes described herself as being someone who had "no purpose in life" and spending her time being "stoned all day long." 
 
 Bynes also credited her isolation to hanging out with a "seedier crowd." 
 
 "I got really into my drug usage and it became a really dark, sad world for me," she explained. Though Bynes refused to address her controversial comments written on Twitter, most specifically to Drake, the actress admitted that she feels “ashamed and embarrassed" over her comments. 
 
 Bynes is aware that her behavior sparked a negative reaction from the public, which she said led people to "diagnose" her. She is now four years sober, and credits her parents with "really helping me get back on track." 
 
 Happy to confirm that her days of experimenting "are long over," Bynes said that she is finally "back to normal." 
 
 The actress said she was excited for the future and a return to acting: "I have no fear of the future. I've been through the worst and came out the other end and survived it, so I just feel like it's only up from here."
– A month after stunning Hollywood and sparking questions about her mental stability with the news of her retirement, Amanda Bynes wants a do-over. "I've unretired," the 24-year-old on-again-off-again actress tweeted. She's a co-star of the buzzed-about high school comedy Easy A, notes People—and within minutes of "unretiring," Bynes was tweeting about the trailer.