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Britney Spears Hospitalized

Postby Lance » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:38 pm

Poor Britney Spears...

She's been confined to a mental institution against her will. Her 72 hour observation has been extended to two weeks.

Let us all pray for her in her time of need.
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Postby troubleagain » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:48 pm

Well, if I prayed, I would. I'm not much for praying. But I will wish for her to come out of this with some actual help and on the path to mental health and strength.
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Postby Lance » Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:51 pm

She's such a shining example of inspiration for our youth, and such a tremendous and vibrant talent that seeing her fall apart like this is a real shame.
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Postby Arneb » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:43 pm

Lance wrote:She's such a shining example of inspiration for our youth, and such a tremendous and vibrant talent that seeing her fall apart like this is a real shame.


Ah. And there I was wondering for a second if you weren't serious in the OP.

I don't pray, but I see nothing wrong with wishing a not very intelligent, not very solid and seriously derailed person well, even if she has committed the deadly sin of having more "success" than talent. I think she is probably a better person than most of the scum that set about pursuing her every (mis)step with big cameras and fast cars. Or those that set about flaming about her on message boards.
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Postby troubleagain » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:20 pm

Yeah, I think she's seriously screwed, and that a LOT of this is her fault for bad decisions, but I still don't have it in me to wish her anything but healing.
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Postby Enzo » Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:35 am

Yes, it took me quite a long time to learn to deal with fame and success at an early age.
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Postby Arneb » Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:56 pm

And I dare say, Enzo, that you are still a bit on the excentric side. On the whole, I'd say you are a shinig example of coping competently with this proble.
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Postby KLA2 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:54 pm

Enzo wrote:Yes, it took me quite a long time to learn to deal with fame and success at an early age.


Me, too. Mainly because it was not MY fame and success. :lol:

What TA said, ditto for me. :)
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Postby Dragon Star » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:34 pm

I hear that Brittany's psychiatrist says Brittany has no idea what's going on, a true mental break down. She's totally oblivious to why this is happening.

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It's also been said that she probably was misdiagnosed, and actually is severely bipolar.

Weird.
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Postby troubleagain » Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:00 am

Weird, yes, and sad.
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Postby Enzo » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:45 am

Well, if it is actually HER psychiatrist, he better not be making any comments, since he is legally constrained from doing so.
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Postby Blue Monster 65 » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:17 pm

Since my self-imposed retirement from the mainstream music entertainment business 14 years ago, I have gone out-of-my-way to distance myself from it and to NOT know much about what's happening in it. Frankly, I wouldn't know Britney Spears or her music if she walked up to me in the street and slapped me in the face.

That said, I do remember a comment about her when she first started out: that her fans were all 11-year-old girls and 40-something men.

What is interesting though, is that she, even after her sales have plummeted (OK, I admit - I do like to check sales figures), she still commands a large share of actual news coverage. It strikes me as the latest version of the carnival freak show, but with real victims.

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Postby Dragon Star » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:07 am

Enzo wrote:Well, if it is actually HER psychiatrist, he better not be making any comments, since he is legally constrained from doing so.


I believe it was one they brought in to assess her condition while in the "hospital".
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Postby Enzo » Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:05 am

That still makes it a doctor/patient relationship, and the doctor should not be making any comments like that.
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