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[quote=Anonymous]Here’s a link with some information that folks might find helpful - it’s about lithium. https://www.nami.org/About-Mental-Illness/Treatments/Mental-Health-Medications/Types-of-Medication/Lithium

To clarify, this is a powerful mood stabilizer that is used primarily for treating bipolar disorder (aka ‘manic depression’) and schizophrenia. So as you contemplate Britney’s diagnosis, keep this in mind. Further, proper treatment with lithium requires regular blood draws to monitor therapeutic levels in the blood and any side effects that might cause other health issues. Finally, pregnancy while being treated with powerful psychiatric drugs like lithium and others is always a special consideration, so it is not at all unusual that careful use of long term birth control like an IUD or implants would be utilized by ANY woman struggling with bipolar or schizophrenia. None of this is on its face nefarious in any way.

Also noteworthy that following the call to court to speak to the judge yesterday, Britney reaffirmed HER desire to keep all records of the court proceedings and her diagnosis and mental health assessments SEALED from public view. Her father isn’t the only person who wants to keep her mental health details private.

Imagine this is not Britney Spears, but just a regular person. Person calls court and asks it to be public and publicly assails EVERYONE in her life except her personal trainer boyfriend.  Person WANTS HER MONEY NOW and WANTS NO MORE RULES! Person doesn’t want to be subject to evaluation by ANYONE to determine if her competency, that was the basis for her original conservatorship, is now restored. Person repeatedly accuses everyone of being out to get her and please Ma’am, set me free!

Honestly I think so many people in the Free Britney camp are well meaning but have no grasp of serious mental illness and how it manifests. I recommend rewatching the episodes of ER that depict the bipolar disorder manifested in Abby’s mother, played beautifully by Sally Field. Bipolar is disabling in many people who don’t stay adherent to a medication and healthy lifestyle regime, and a bipolar person with a drug addiction history set loose on a fortune of millions has the potential to end up very, very ugly. I hope this judge finds the right path forward.

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