I'm not arguing the conservatorship should continue. You must have missed the "have at it." Let the feeding frenzy of grifters begin! |
+1. It’s abundantly clear that sexism and misogyny have played a big role in what’s happened to Britney and why people think it’s acceptable. The woman hasn’t been allowed to have her own phone for over a decade! The people in charge of Britney want to control her so they can profit off of her. That’s what this is about. |
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It’s sad because she was very clearly having a mental health crisis when this began.
But it is bizarre how it evolved. |
I agree. I don’t think the issue is her mental health so much as her mental health issues combined with very low intellectual capacity. |
What’s clear is most of you have never had to deal with anyone who suffers with severe mental illness. Queue the “I have and it wasn’t that bad/difficult and they are fine” posters. |
| Schizophrenia is often diagnosed at the age when Brit had her first troubles. Someone with whom I'd gone to kindergarten all the way through high school and into the same college was diagnosed with this, and now she's a 38 year old woman living in her parents home. She has a job at a restaurant and seems happy and OK when I have visited, but I know she's on medication she'll have to take for the rest of her life, and that she is under her parents care to make sure she stays on it and that she is OK. I always wondered if this could be what happened to Britney: maybe her medication works and she feels OK, but she has some diagnosis that is permanent and really needs monitoring, so she really needs the conservatorship? |
Right? Kanye West has been unstable for a long time and he's not under a conservatorship. |
That's because there's no one who loves him enough to do it. |
The vast majority of Americans coping with mental illness are permitted to be in charge of their own lives. They are allowed to hire their own attorneys and to own and use phones. If you have special evidence indicating that Britney should not be included among those Americans despite maintaining an enormously successful and lucrative career, please do share. |
Is the schizophrenic woman you know under a conservatorship? Just because people have serious mental health problems doesn’t mean they need to be placed under a conservatorship, which is a very extreme measure. Sometimes they just need a considerable amount of assistance, which is something Britney can afford to get. |
GMAFB. You have no idea who loves Kanye West or how much. |
So there should be no conservatorships? There should be a line somewhere? If so, where is the line? |
Yes, but maybe they shouldn't be. We closed the mental institutions and replaced them with Nothing. That doesn't mean it's the best way. |
| We do not know what mental illness she has. How anyone can speak with such authority without knowing that is beyond me. |
| If Britney were ugly, we wouldn't care about her. |