What is actually wrong with Britney Spears?

[Anonymous]

Also the judge did not immediately rescind the conservator status, so she is not doing well. People with bipolar disorder have trouble in their 40s and most die (one way or other) by their 60s.

[Anonymous]

She’s got bipolar, which my SIL also has, and it’s a life sentence. It’s very difficult to find the right med combination that works to stabilize and very often meds stopped working after some time and you have to start all over finding new ones. My SIL even did electric shock therapy (it’s still around) as a desperate attempt to re-wire he brain (all it did was give her memory loss). Watching how my SIL basically never leaves her house and cannot function,I cannot imagine how much worse she’d be if she was a performer and in the public spotlight like Britney. I have tremendous empathy for Britney, I wish the press would really leave her alone.

[Anonymous]

She has a diagnosis of bipolar but that's always surprised me because a lot of people live with that and still function on their own while she has to have the conservatorship.

A conservatorship makes me think of something more extreme like schizophrenia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MK Ultra.

Google the Dave Chapelle episode of "Inside the Actor's Studio" and he tells the whole story (using carefully selected language) to get you to really THINK about what happens to all these creative, strong people when they "get to Hollywood" to make them all go crazy! Why?? Why are some of the strongest people suddenly "going crazy?" Is it really that? Or are they resisting attempts to control them and then the PR machine goes into overdrive to make them APPEAR crazy?? "Thus...Africa!"

Watch the clip, OP. It's truly disturbing to think about.

But really. Why does this keep happening? Are all these performers *actually* crazy? Amanda Bynes? Britney? Dave? Jim Carey? Martin Lawrence? Shia LaBeouf? Sean Young? Miley Cyrus? Kanye West? Martin Lawrence? Really? All of them went nuts...temporarily?

Drug use often triggers underlying tendencies to mental illness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I noted that her fortune of $675M dwindled to $60M with Dads help.

That is pretty shocking, actually. She should have been making gobs of money on her Vegas residency. Celine Dion made hundreds of millions apparently.

[Anonymous]

I think she might be intellectually disabled in addition to her mental illness struggles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think she might be intellectually disabled in addition to her mental illness struggles.

Her IQ is not below 70. She seems to have low average to average intelligence and not particularly intellectual, great little dancer, worked hard most of her life, and suffering from inherited mental illness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MK Ultra.

Google the Dave Chapelle episode of "Inside the Actor's Studio" and he tells the whole story (using carefully selected language) to get you to really THINK about what happens to all these creative, strong people when they "get to Hollywood" to make them all go crazy! Why?? Why are some of the strongest people suddenly "going crazy?" Is it really that? Or are they resisting attempts to control them and then the PR machine goes into overdrive to make them APPEAR crazy?? "Thus...Africa!"

Watch the clip, OP. It's truly disturbing to think about.

But really. Why does this keep happening? Are all these performers *actually* crazy? Amanda Bynes? Britney? Dave? Jim Carey? Martin Lawrence? Shia LaBeouf? Sean Young? Miley Cyrus? Kanye West? Martin Lawrence? Really? All of them went nuts...temporarily?

I really can’t speak to all of the above people but most people are just regular. Some of these people who are famous truly have something special but I believe what gives us their gifts also causes problems (thinking of Van Gogh, Hemingway, to name a couple).

Van Gogh isn't a good example because he wasn't famous until after his death. He only sold one painting while alive. Also, he may have been murdered and not committed suicide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I noted that her fortune of $675M dwindled to $60M with Dads help.

That is pretty shocking, actually. She should have been making gobs of money on her Vegas residency. Celine Dion made hundreds of millions apparently.

This is not even close to correct. $675MM was never her net worth at any time, that is the aggregate estimate of her earnings if you add all the money she's ever made. In 2007, when her conservatorship went into effect, she has an estimated worth of $54MM.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trialandheirs/2019/05/15/making-sense-of-the-britney-spears-conservatorship-and-freebritney/#5d7f5c974b74

[Anonymous]

I think everyone just thought she was just "dumb" when she was younger, but I truly think she has a mental illness. There's something very sad when you watch her on TV.

[Anonymous]

I also think it's strange how she's now trying to break out of her conservatorship after all these years and her mom and dad are on opposite sides in terms of her care.

[Anonymous]

She's mentally ill. Add the stress of being a teen star based on looks and image, and it's a recipe for disaster.

[Anonymous]

This what fame at a young age does to people. I mean when else is there to go but down? Then probably add some party drugs and it's a recipe for disaster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also the judge did not immediately rescind the conservator status, so she is not doing well. People with bipolar disorder have trouble in their 40s and most die (one way or other) by their 60s.

I have bipolar and you just freaked me the f out. I've never heard this... Any articles or anything?

[Anonymous]

I think that people judge someone who actually is a victim of their own fame. Imagine being a money making product ever since you are like 5? or so .. whichever the age it was when she started in Mickey Mouse Club? Anyhoo.. it is kind of a child abuse when parents turn a kid into a profit making machine and focus on that. I can not imagine what it must have looked like for a kid to be constantly under this kind of pressure. Read this forum and hear the cry of parents struggling sometimes to get a kid to clean the room or havening to struggles to wake up a kid to school in time.
Now imagine the kid who has the same need and quirks as the next kid but who has to work overtime like an adult on an adult schedule for so many years. Do you think there was a time for childhood, for the usual stuff, a time to became an adult, to grow into your own person?
I highly doubt it.
It is very different when adults choose a career path like this, but it is different when someone takes a kid and pushes and pushes and pushes. A child must loose the sense of self and becomes dependent on others with most of decisions. I feel sorry for her and most of the child actors and performers who started the same way and end the same way.

I would not rush to criticize her for where she is now because most of it was not of her own doings. It was her parents doings, they took away her childhood, they gave her fame. The problem is that when you build a tall building on a very thin foundations then the building eventually collapses.
How can most of you judge this poor kid for what was done to her without taking into consideration all the facts?
It must be just incredibly difficult to be an adult and a parent and a mother and all that without ever having a chance to grow into it.
Her parents split early on and she did not have a stable home. This also had an impact, no?

It is so easy to criticize someone but most of you do not realize that most of the famous kids would do anything to go back and start over as a normal kid and never go through what they did. It is just that it is impossible. At one point there is no going back. Your chance for childhood and normalcy is gone.