“That perhaps Spears isn’t a victim of state overreach but instead a success story of state intervention. That maybe her family really does care about her well-being.”
I mean, there’s a lot in between these two extremes. Of course Britney was mentally ill when all of this started. But even the author of this piece was only temporarily ins…
“That perhaps Spears isn’t a victim of state overreach but instead a success story of state intervention. That maybe her family really does care about her well-being.”
I mean, there’s a lot in between these two extremes. Of course Britney was mentally ill when all of this started. But even the author of this piece was only temporarily institutionalized for his mental illness. He received treatment and apparently got to move on with his life. That is not what happened to Britney. Her father took control of her whole life, including her existing finances AND her career and future earnings. She became his circus monkey, learning tricks and putting on performances when HE told her to. He controlled whom she communicated with. He chose her doctors (who all conveniently confirmed whatever he wanted the judge to believe in order to retain the conservatorship). I’m sorry, but to compare a 13-year state-sanctioned nightmare like this to the author getting voluntary, short-lived, in-patient mental health treatment is disingenuous and illogical.
Britney Spears has a lot of problems. She does not appear to be mentally well. She appears to be suffering from arrested development (among other things) because of the ways in which she has been exploited her entire life.
But she never deserved what her family did to her.
I cried listening to her court testimony about the conservatorship (shortly before it ended). So many of the things she wanted were such basic things that most people take for granted. She wanted to be able to ride in her boyfriend's car. She wanted to get new kitchen cabinets. She wanted to be able to pick her own therapist. Apparently she was too mentally ill to decide to do those things, but not so ill that she couldn't play a Las Vegas residency.
Came here to say this. If they were truly concerned, a conservatorship would have removed her from the public eye immediately. Her parents never should have allowed her to become a hypersexualized child star.
True. What do they do when the record companies dump truckloads of cash on their driveway every day? I'm not excusing her parents' failure. But I am adding the first of many serious obstacles to doing what's right.
“That perhaps Spears isn’t a victim of state overreach but instead a success story of state intervention. That maybe her family really does care about her well-being.”
I mean, there’s a lot in between these two extremes. Of course Britney was mentally ill when all of this started. But even the author of this piece was only temporarily institutionalized for his mental illness. He received treatment and apparently got to move on with his life. That is not what happened to Britney. Her father took control of her whole life, including her existing finances AND her career and future earnings. She became his circus monkey, learning tricks and putting on performances when HE told her to. He controlled whom she communicated with. He chose her doctors (who all conveniently confirmed whatever he wanted the judge to believe in order to retain the conservatorship). I’m sorry, but to compare a 13-year state-sanctioned nightmare like this to the author getting voluntary, short-lived, in-patient mental health treatment is disingenuous and illogical.
Britney Spears has a lot of problems. She does not appear to be mentally well. She appears to be suffering from arrested development (among other things) because of the ways in which she has been exploited her entire life.
But she never deserved what her family did to her.
I cried listening to her court testimony about the conservatorship (shortly before it ended). So many of the things she wanted were such basic things that most people take for granted. She wanted to be able to ride in her boyfriend's car. She wanted to get new kitchen cabinets. She wanted to be able to pick her own therapist. Apparently she was too mentally ill to decide to do those things, but not so ill that she couldn't play a Las Vegas residency.
Came here to say this. If they were truly concerned, a conservatorship would have removed her from the public eye immediately. Her parents never should have allowed her to become a hypersexualized child star.
True. What do they do when the record companies dump truckloads of cash on their driveway every day? I'm not excusing her parents' failure. But I am adding the first of many serious obstacles to doing what's right.
I agree.