Pet peeve for some reason....

it's B-R-I-T-N-E-Y not Brittany

It's right where you quote her name but you get it wrong where you write it in your material.

She's coming up all over the place in the mental health cyber world and no one gets her name right...

not sure why I give a shit.

fixed. thanks

my name always gets spelled wrong, over time, you just stop looking for pencils and magnets spelled right. then we grow up, and Britney's got to do that alongside everything else she's got going.

Britney Spears is an example, in my opinion, of an SSRI induced 'bipolar' disorder. She literally went insane on her Paxil and Prozac.

For the full media stories of her Paxil & Prozac use, go to www.ssristories.com Click on the Index and then, using your word-finder mechanism, type in "Britney". There is only one case for Britney listed there but when you open the media article, there are two articles to read.

Another way of finding the case, if your word-finder is out of commission, it to scroll down past the school shootings, the "won" cases and the Journal Articles. The articles which have received a lot of publicity are next. They have a + sign in front of them. This + sign is actually used to bring these cases to the top of the Index but SSRI Stories indicates that these are "well-publicized" cases - which they are. There are about 30 cases there.

This case of Britney Spears is just one of many exampoles of the SSRIs giving 'bipolar' disorder a bad name. It is a National Tragedy.

You have no idea what people who work in the entertainment industry go through and what they try to get you to do. .....Oh you(artist) don't like how we(management/producer/distributors) want to dress you and what we what you to preform...you're ungrateful....you don't want to perform then.......you have a mental problem....looking at all you're throwing away.....I can't manipulate you to do what I want, you have a problem then..... Most of the times when you hear of artist "X" storming off and walking away from everything all you see is that they are f'ing up every thing, what you don't see is its an actual act to save themselves from being in a miserable existence or do you like having to live a lie for another's profit? What you create is very intimate and having to whore yourself out feels the same as just laying back and having sex with someone for the cash and if not worse as an artist.
Plenty of activities that are fun but maybe out of legal or normal in society suddenly get twist to show some "great mental problem". If we made up the majority and you didn't do what we did then you would be the ones suffering an infliction. Most people who are in the arts enjoy ourselves, our bodies and are a lot more free with what we do for pleasure. Let alone this how staying out late crap as another sign of a life out of control.... People who work in the industry are not "morning people" most of us are more energetic and do more later in the day and into the night where the "normals" are dragging and gotta go beddie bye. Making us get up early and try to function only leads to problems and then this gets blamed on a mental problem or a sign of one. Where if you let us do what works best for us we accomplish a lot more. Its about a different internal clock. Read up "Delayed sleep phase syndrome" if you want. Most of us have been told we're lazy which we're not, that there something wrong with us when we are just different.

Or are we the only industry that has to network? Our people are night owls and more likely to be up and about an event or a party is just as much about work as a convention is for the regular workforce.

I really feel for her with all the people around her using her and trying to save her. Come to think of it,most artist who end their lives only do so after people trying to save them from their lifestyle. Add to imagine you had no privacy, no right of self and every little thing you did playing around or joking with your coworkers(which the press and paparazzi are) was suddenly put under a microscope. The whole talk with an accent isn't sign of a different personality its probably no more than her having some fun and stress relief by f'ing with the photog's (Do you like all your coworkers?). Imagine what its like to never be able to make friends and having to worry about everyone selling your private and personal information. Who's does she have around her she can really trust? Families are jealous and don't approve of our lifestyle.

I wonder if working in show business since she was a small child and then transitioning from nymphette star to cukolded mother has something to do with Britany's spiritual crisis, combined with the fact that she's being told that in effect she is crazy to be in any way dissatisfied with her life and doped up on psych drugs might have something to do with her behavior? In other words, Rosie is right.

Whatever it is - SSRI induced mania or true bipolar, I just hope she makes it out of her downward spiral. I read Patty Duke´s memoir, and Kay Jamison´s, and hope someone else gives it a try. There is far too much ignorance and mythology about this condition.

All of us agree that when drugs are ruining your life you need to make a change. Most addicted people will agree. I bet Brittany will agree. However, many don’t get help. Why?

As the director of Novus Medical Detox, I would suggest that many people never make it to rehab because they have tried to stop and the withdrawal pain was too great. This is why 95% of the people that try on their own don't make it. They fear the withdrawal more than the problem.

Some people's DNA and metabolism does make them more susceptible to dependence and addiction and either way the withdrawal is painful.

We now have protocols that make it much more comfortable and once off the drugs/alcohol, then they will be thinking more clearly and have a better chance in rehab.

The decision to change their lives must be made for any rehab to work. The confidence that they can stand the pain is often required before the decision to get rehab.

I don't think that she is bipolar--just addicted.

Steve Hayes
http://www.novusdetox.com

I never followed Britney, but these stories about her involuntary civil commitment are certainly causing to have ptsd like symptoms like nightmares and anxiety about my own wrongful commitment, and the crazed folks who think this is a good idea are so frightening. Here's a woman who started working in the entertainment industry as a small child. I don't know anything about her childhood but the very fact that she was a child star would tend to indicate she has at least one abusive, greedy parent or guardian who probably is now in control of her money and screwing up her finances while she is tortured in a psych hospital. I can't think of a child star who turned out mentally "healthy." It's just that it is trendy now to label people bipolar. I can't imagine how this "treatment" will help this woman.

I was never very interested in Britney as a celebrity or entertainer, either, but I found it a little chilling when I first heard about her being taken away by ambulance in the middle of the night. It seemed a little less frightening when I heard that it was to avoid all the press who hound her that the ambulance came at the time it did, but it still seems bad. Most people who have never been through such an experience probably don't know how traumatic it can be to be taken away for forced "treatment" like that.

Just because the vehicle used is an ambulance doesn't make it any less frightening, either. Remember that Russian journalist who was taken away by ambulance last summer for criticizing the psychiatric system there?

I don't know whether or not Britney has bipolar or any other kind of disorder, or has a drug problem, or is suffering mainly from the lack of privacy related to her career. But if she needs some kind of "help" I think she should be able to choose where and from whom she gets it. Maybe if she poses a danger to her children she shouldn't have access to them for a while, but that is completely different than taking her away for forced treatment. It always seems a little chilling to see the power of the state to incarcarate extending beyond instances of actual crime and including thought crime or bizarre behavior that just makes someone else uncomfortable - that kind of power is so arbitrary.

Why do you not want it called a disease? Is illness that different a term? bipolar in indeed a mental illness.

F., I'm not speaking for Phillip when I say this. Bipolar Disorder is a label used to take civil rights away from people, not a medical disease. Mental illness is a sane reaction to insane situations, not a medical disease. This does not mean human suffering is not real, it doesn't even mean it's wrong for people in extreme emotional pain to take drugs, but there is no evidence that there's a disease called bipolar disorder.