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[mallorys_camera]

Poor Britney. Her scumbag parents will keep her medicated for the rest of her life, and they'll spend her money. It's a modern day Frances Farmer scenario.

Of course her parents were willing to ride her manic phases on the way up. Their own little money making machine!

They're despicable.

In the year 2028, after Britney herself is either dead or bloated beyond recognition, living in Palm Springs with a caretaker and 20 chihuahuas, some mainstream actress w/avante garde tendencies á la Jessica Lange will make a movie about her. (That's assuming they still make movies with humans.) The Britney Spears Story! The film will be a modest arthouse success and the actress will be nominated for a SAG award. She won't win.

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[hotelsamurai.livejournal.com]

The poor kid.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

I feel very sorry for her.

Britney

[fallen-x-ashes.livejournal.com]

Poor Britney. Her scumbag parents will keep her medicated for the rest of her life, and they'll spend her money.

Well, let me point out, she's bipolar. I'd probably say of the schitzotypal variety. That kind of issue will indeed need treatment the rest of her life.

I am very hopeful however, now that she's been committed, that she will get the help she needs and become a fully functional adult again. I think it's scandalous that a clearly mentally incapacitated individual could be paraded in from of the cameras all day and society does nothing.

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[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Frances Farmer was bipolar too.

I don't doubt that she needs treatment. It's just -- I dunno. In retrospect, knowing her diagnosis, her whole career arc is typical of manic bipolar cycling. She wants to be a STAR. Every waking moment -- and there are a lot of those -- is spent performing and promoting. This is not normal behavior in a child -- as a mother myself, I feel qualified to be judgemental here. Why didn't her parents pick up on that? 'Cause she was their little baby girl ATM, that's why. They must have known something was off, but as long as they controlled the money, they didn't care.

So, yes. I think they're scum.

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[lethe1]

But Frances Farmer was committed 60 years ago, and besides, she didn't spend the rest of her life in a mental hospital.

Re: Britney

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't think Britney Spears is going to spend her life in a mental hospital.

But I do think her parents are more interested in controlling her than they are in curing her.

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[fallen-x-ashes.livejournal.com]

I agree with your opinion there. I do not however, believe they will succeed, as long as Britney recovers.

Also, no, I don't believe her parents would have picked up on the bipolar. I mean, that's part of why I made the statement about her treatment by the media. Our culture at large still doesn't understand that mental illness is beyond the sphere of a character flaw. They just want to call her a "slut" or rationalize her behavior away as "having a hard time and she'll be fine."

No she won't, unless she's treated, because her perception of reality is utterly skewed.

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[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Curious here -- why do you think her parents wouldn't pick up on the bipolar? Her mother used to be a teacher. Surely she would have had some education on mental illness.

[fireflylive.livejournal.com]

I would *hope* that all they would want is for their daughter to get better.

I'm just disgusted that watching Britney fall apart has become so much of a specator sport for some.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Me too. I feel really sorry for the girl.

[dinahprincedaly.livejournal.com]

interesting take on it.
...so, maybe Madonna should take her under her wing... wasn't that Madonna/Britney stuff the beginning of the... well, letting the Disney girl out of Pandora's jack-in-the-box... obviously one girl was built for it, popping out as something more outrageous each time, the other not so

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Madonna has always struck me as eminently sane. She approached stardom like a military campaign, and she was an adult when she started that campaign.

Britney, on the other hand, was a child whose every action was apparently based on look-at-me! look-at-me! and whose every thought was of stardom. Instead of trying to temper this behavior, her parents rode it all the way. Obviously I don't have access to God's videotape collection, so I can't say for sure that Britney's obsession with stardom was a symptom of mania. But it sure reads that way to me.

I mean, my younger son is a real extrovert -- unlike either of his parents -- and has been in a couple of local commercials, so I have a leetle bit of experience with the stage mommy scene. It's up to parents to set limits. The Spears didn't or couldn't. I call that irresponsible parenting.

[a1icey.livejournal.com]

haha. excellent.

but i don't believe she's got bipolar disorder or anything. they're trying to make her out to be crazy by constantly referencing a fight she had with her mother at a car dealership? who doesn't fight over car purchasing???

anyway, like perez said, she's living in a completely distorted world. and all that needs to happen is for her to escape it and she'll start behaving normally. and it's like with heath ledger - everyone together (consumers, celebrities, photographers, britney herself) could prevent these magazines from using her anymore.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not privy to her medical records or anything but her behavior is consistent with bipolar disorder.

One thing seems certain: she dislikes and distrusts her parents deeply.

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

I have never cared about Britney as a performer, but it really makes me feel sad to see her falling apart like she has in the past year. I mean, the girl is OBVIOUSLY not all together right now, and I'm looking forward to seeing her get better. I hope she will retire from show business and concentrate on becoming well and being a mom.

I admit, it was a little bit funny at first, but it has quickly gone beyond that into the realm of being sad.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Never liked her as a performer either. But she's had a huge influence on contemporary culture -- mostly on teenage girls -- and it's just so bizarre to me that one of the primary archetypes of feminity right now is someone who's so obviously mentally ill.

[bel-ebat.livejournal.com]

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/18310562/the_tragedy_of_britney_spears

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Want to read something heartbreaking?

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0205083spears1.html

[bel-ebat.livejournal.com]

how does someone even get out of that

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Don't know. I mean -- we've all been there. (Or at least, I have. I was pretty fucking crazy in my colorful youth.) But most of us have not had our mothers trailing us, taking notes, for depositional posterity.