Anonymous wrote:She sounds so lucid in her testimony, yet her Instagram is SO bizarre.
Anonymous wrote:I don't get how Dad can have her working all those hours, travel, etc. and justify it if she is that mentally ill.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:And +1 to 09:04. I agree the transcript shows disordered thinking. I truly do not understand how so many people all over the Internet see this as some sort of smoking gun revealing that she’s fine.
Just the fact that her first goal is to resist evaluation is odd.
And PP if you listen to the audio you’ll hear some pressure of speech.
I feel bad for Britney and I feel like her well meaning fans are going to leave her homeless and dying on the street.
She has been evaluated constantly for the last 13 years. Do you know how invasive that is? She literally has zero privacy including her own thoughts.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:And +1 to 09:04. I agree the transcript shows disordered thinking. I truly do not understand how so many people all over the Internet see this as some sort of smoking gun revealing that she’s fine.
Just the fact that her first goal is to resist evaluation is odd.
And PP if you listen to the audio you’ll hear some pressure of speech.
I feel bad for Britney and I feel like her well meaning fans are going to leave her homeless and dying on the street.
She has been evaluated constantly for the last 13 years. Do you know how invasive that is? She literally has zero privacy including her own thoughts.
Anonymous wrote:And +1 to 09:04. I agree the transcript shows disordered thinking. I truly do not understand how so many people all over the Internet see this as some sort of smoking gun revealing that she’s fine.
Just the fact that her first goal is to resist evaluation is odd.
And PP if you listen to the audio you’ll hear some pressure of speech.
I feel bad for Britney and I feel like her well meaning fans are going to leave her homeless and dying on the street.
Anonymous wrote:+100000000 people have no idea what severe mental illness looks like or the steps families go through to keep someone safe from themselves. To the outside world the person looks normal or not that bad but to the loved ones who witness it, it’s truly heartbreaking. I don’t know Brittanys situation but what you’ve articulated is very similar to our family’s experience.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it legal to force sterilize someone?
Brittany is not sterilized and yes it's legal to make medical decisions for someone who can not.
Might I chime in here even though i'm sure many people might not like what I have to say, and of course i might be totally wrong because i don't know Brittany and he actual medical condition. None of us can know.
My mom is seriously mentally ill. I feel if you don't know someone with mental illness it's hard to understand or relate to things that seem uncalled for or inhumane.
Severely mentally ill people can not care for themselves or others. Many have anosognosia where they are in denial or don't know that they are ill. My mom has anosognosia she is 64 years old and for my entire life of 37 years she has been been trying to convince everyone around her that she is fine. She believes that she is fine and the world is out to get her. It brings her such agony and distress. She 100% believes she is fine and everything is against her and necessary. She had been in a conservatorship under her mother for 36 years.
With medication she can be more functional. However with anosognosia the sufferer doesn't think there is anything wrong with them and it's a cycle of fighting for freedom, obtaining it, then not caring for themself and going off their meds and then ending up in a terrible state back in a mental facility on heavy drugs like Lithium and then released and so on. My mom managed to get her freedom in my lifetime 6x. It's all she ever talks about and when she has it, it becomes a quick downward spiral every single time. At times she can be very convincing. She can not be on her own. Mental illness can not be cured, and she will never get better, and she will never have the freedom she desires. When she is on her own she is a danger to herself and others around her.
This is sadly her life.
There were times when she wanted more kids and all of that and she was not allowed to because she could not care for me and she could not care for herself. She left me unattended, and would put my life directly in danger many times. Sometimes she was violent, sometimes she was neglectful, and sometimes she was delusional.
Not allowing Brittany to have kids might be in the interest of the kid that she could not take care of. with someone in the public eye like Brittany it would just be such a scandal and such medical negligence to put her on something as strong as lithium if she didn't need it, to take custody of her children away, and etc.
But again what do we know. Maybe it is all one big scandal.
Maybe her dad is taking advantage of the situation how can we know, but it's important to keep in mind that there might be more to the situation than we know.
Even if she isn't being mishandled I feel very badly for her. I know that my mom suffers everyday thinking the world is against her, being forced on meds she doesn't want and thinks she doesn't need, having her life controlled pretty much for the most of it. But if this didn't happen she would be on the streets, or maybe hurting herself or someone else unintentionally.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I went to her Instagram and watched a couple of her videos where she is “spinning” and than another video where she is answering a question. I am not an American so I cannot be really 100% sure but her way of talking and body movement is very off. It is like she has an intellectual disability or something.
I always had the impression that she was intellectually disabled (I'm sorry if that's not the current correct terminology), and that everyone tried to cover it up by controlling everything she did. Not unlike the rumors about Beyonce being illiterate and essentially a puppet/money-making machine.
+1. The Beyoncé rumors are false. But I think Britney maybe really just isn’t very smart and has mental illness/challenges. But that describes like nearly a quarter of the American population! We still let most of them make their own decisions.
Anonymous wrote:+100000000 people have no idea what severe mental illness looks like or the steps families go through to keep someone safe from themselves. To the outside world the person looks normal or not that bad but to the loved ones who witness it, it’s truly heartbreaking. I don’t know Brittanys situation but what you’ve articulated is very similar to our family’s experience.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it legal to force sterilize someone?
Brittany is not sterilized and yes it's legal to make medical decisions for someone who can not.
Might I chime in here even though i'm sure many people might not like what I have to say, and of course i might be totally wrong because i don't know Brittany and he actual medical condition. None of us can know.
My mom is seriously mentally ill. I feel if you don't know someone with mental illness it's hard to understand or relate to things that seem uncalled for or inhumane.
Severely mentally ill people can not care for themselves or others. Many have anosognosia where they are in denial or don't know that they are ill. My mom has anosognosia she is 64 years old and for my entire life of 37 years she has been been trying to convince everyone around her that she is fine. She believes that she is fine and the world is out to get her. It brings her such agony and distress. She 100% believes she is fine and everything is against her and necessary. She had been in a conservatorship under her mother for 36 years.
With medication she can be more functional. However with anosognosia the sufferer doesn't think there is anything wrong with them and it's a cycle of fighting for freedom, obtaining it, then not caring for themself and going off their meds and then ending up in a terrible state back in a mental facility on heavy drugs like Lithium and then released and so on. My mom managed to get her freedom in my lifetime 6x. It's all she ever talks about and when she has it, it becomes a quick downward spiral every single time. At times she can be very convincing. She can not be on her own. Mental illness can not be cured, and she will never get better, and she will never have the freedom she desires. When she is on her own she is a danger to herself and others around her.
This is sadly her life.
There were times when she wanted more kids and all of that and she was not allowed to because she could not care for me and she could not care for herself. She left me unattended, and would put my life directly in danger many times. Sometimes she was violent, sometimes she was neglectful, and sometimes she was delusional.
Not allowing Brittany to have kids might be in the interest of the kid that she could not take care of. with someone in the public eye like Brittany it would just be such a scandal and such medical negligence to put her on something as strong as lithium if she didn't need it, to take custody of her children away, and etc.
But again what do we know. Maybe it is all one big scandal.
Maybe her dad is taking advantage of the situation how can we know, but it's important to keep in mind that there might be more to the situation than we know.
Even if she isn't being mishandled I feel very badly for her. I know that my mom suffers everyday thinking the world is against her, being forced on meds she doesn't want and thinks she doesn't need, having her life controlled pretty much for the most of it. But if this didn't happen she would be on the streets, or maybe hurting herself or someone else unintentionally.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it legal to force sterilize someone?
Brittany is not sterilized and yes it's legal to make medical decisions for someone who can not.
Might I chime in here even though i'm sure many people might not like what I have to say, and of course i might be totally wrong because i don't know Brittany and he actual medical condition. None of us can know.
My mom is seriously mentally ill. I feel if you don't know someone with mental illness it's hard to understand or relate to things that seem uncalled for or inhumane.
Severely mentally ill people can not care for themselves or others. Many have anosognosia where they are in denial or don't know that they are ill. My mom has anosognosia she is 64 years old and for my entire life of 37 years she has been been trying to convince everyone around her that she is fine. She believes that she is fine and the world is out to get her. It brings her such agony and distress. She 100% believes she is fine and everything is against her and necessary. She had been in a conservatorship under her mother for 36 years.
With medication she can be more functional. However with anosognosia the sufferer doesn't think there is anything wrong with them and it's a cycle of fighting for freedom, obtaining it, then not caring for themself and going off their meds and then ending up in a terrible state back in a mental facility on heavy drugs like Lithium and then released and so on. My mom managed to get her freedom in my lifetime 6x. It's all she ever talks about and when she has it, it becomes a quick downward spiral every single time. At times she can be very convincing. She can not be on her own. Mental illness can not be cured, and she will never get better, and she will never have the freedom she desires. When she is on her own she is a danger to herself and others around her.
This is sadly her life.
There were times when she wanted more kids and all of that and she was not allowed to because she could not care for me and she could not care for herself. She left me unattended, and would put my life directly in danger many times. Sometimes she was violent, sometimes she was neglectful, and sometimes she was delusional.
Not allowing Brittany to have kids might be in the interest of the kid that she could not take care of. with someone in the public eye like Brittany it would just be such a scandal and such medical negligence to put her on something as strong as lithium if she didn't need it, to take custody of her children away, and etc.
But again what do we know. Maybe it is all one big scandal.
Maybe her dad is taking advantage of the situation how can we know, but it's important to keep in mind that there might be more to the situation than we know.
Even if she isn't being mishandled I feel very badly for her. I know that my mom suffers everyday thinking the world is against her, being forced on meds she doesn't want and thinks she doesn't need, having her life controlled pretty much for the most of it. But if this didn't happen she would be on the streets, or maybe hurting herself or someone else unintentionally.