It Is Sooo Sad

[NY Disney fan]

My theory: Britney sees her whole family as the enemy and wants no help from them. She's got a "me against the world" thing going on. She will either help or destroy herself. Don't know what % mental illness plays in all of this.

 

[va32h]

I totally agree. I feel really bad for her. She NEEDS help NOW and it just seems like to me that no one in her family or friends is helping her. So sad all around.

They have tried to help her. She is an adult and they cannot force her to get treatment for whatever her problem is.

I get so tired of reading "why won't someone help her" on any thread about Britney. People have tried to help her. She doesn't want help.

 

[BelleBoo&AmisMum]

She's on her way to the courthouse now. CNN has a live blog with the information. CNN

 

[Camicar]

I think she is mentally ill and is not making rational choices. I also wonder if her illness has prevented her from truly bonding with those children.

In any case, at this point and sadly, the children are better off without their mother in their lives.

She doesn't want help.

The vast majority of mentally ill people -- esp those pre-diagnosis -- don't want help bec they don't think there is anything wrong with them. Sadly, in our quest to preserve people's rights, we have gone so far in the other direction by largely prohibiting involuntary admittance to mental facilities that people who need help are not getting it bec they only way they will get it is if they are forced to get it and no one can force them unless they prove to be a significant threat to themselves. A mentally ill person has to go a long waaaay down a dangerous road before they can be committed and IF that person has episodic illnesses (such as bipolar), they can seem completely rational the next day and be released.

 

[Handbag Lady]

But....how did the new furniture look?

 

[rie'smom]

My theory: Britney sees her whole family as the enemy and wants no help from them. She's got a "me against the world" thing going on. She will either help or destroy herself. Don't know what % mental illness plays in all of this.

She has been diagnosed bipolar, so I would say a very large percentage of her behavior stems from this. If she is off her meds, then her problems grow exponentially.

They have tried to help her. She is an adult and they cannot force her to get treatment for whatever her problem is.

I get so tired of reading "why won't someone help her" on any thread about Britney. People have tried to help her. She doesn't want help.

This is a huge problem IMO. The gov't "fixed" this in the 60's. People can only be held for 72 hours and most people with mental illness know this. If they don't know it going in, as soon as they get on proper medication, they remember and check out of the hospital. The only way around this in Louisiana, I'm not sure about other states, is to get a coroner to commit them. If her parents could catch a grip and get her to trust them, this would be an option if they could get her to come to Louisiana.

 

[va32h]

Their blogger is behind the times. She's driving aimlessly around the courthouse. At one point she got out, walked around her SUV and got back in it again.

 

[Mermaid02]

Their blogger is behind the times. She's driving aimlessly around the courthouse. At one point she got out, walked around her SUV and got back in it again.

 

[livie1205]

SHE JUST WANTED THE ATTENTION! she did not even go in to fight for her kids! she is going home... she is sick and i dont mean doctor sick...loser...no amount of money can make you a good person.

 

[Mady/Sophiemom]

CNN is reporting that she went to court, got out, but yelled "I'm scared" and got back in the SUV.

Then she went to a church???? , and is now back into the SUV, and they are following the SUV, by helicopter.

 

[mickeysgal]

When you have no reference point of what is normal, I don't know how she's going to get back to any version of normal. She never experienced any kind of normal childhood or adulthood. She grew up a pure money machine with everyone from her parents on up shoving her into the spotlight, telling her how wonderful she is, telling her to perform, perform, perform, and no one ever correcting her and telling her simply no when it came to her bad behavior or bad decisions. Now that the glitz and glamour has faded, she must be like a rat in a maze trying to find her way back to what she thought was her normal. I don't know about any of you, but if I had to live like that with a constant spotlight and judgement on every single move I make every hour of the day, I'd go nuts too.

 

[va32h]

I don't know about any of you, but if I had to live like that with a constant spotlight and judgement on every single move I make every hour of the day, I'd go nuts too.

The paparazzi didn't force her refuse to return her children to their custodial parent or to lock herself in a bathroom with her crying, terrified children. The paparazzi aren't forcing her to show up at Starbucks or CVS or various gas stations every single day.

Her current boyfriend is a paparazzi photographer, so she apparently doesn't hate all of them.

She's in the spotlight because she purposely and repeatedly seeks the spotlight.

 

[4greatboys]

Im actually hoping she is diagnosed with some kind of mental illness. Otherwise its just sickening to watch her behavior and think she is just really selfish and stupid.

 

[beattyfamily]

That's odd because just I saw footage about 15 minutes ago of her arriving at the courthouse, getting out surrounded by paparazzi and then saying she was scared and then she got back in her car and left. They said the hearing would be tomorrow.

She is totally messed up. She, IMHO, has a mental illness; seems like bipolar. It's very hard to tell someone with mental illness that they need help. They think they are fine. They do irrational things. I don't think she doesn't love her children,; I think she need help but won't take it. Not sure what you can do with an adult who doesn't want help.

Right after I watched the footage of her arriving at the courthouse, they showed some footage of her out and about this weekend. She spoke in the british accent in all the footage and screamed at the paparazzi several times.

She's really loosing it and it's so very sad to watch.

 

[bethie]

It is a sad situation. I am not a Britney fan at all, but I think the media is just waiting for her to do something drastic to herself. The young lady does need some help and I hope she gets it and soon.

 

[rie'smom]

Im actually hoping she is diagnosed with some kind of mental illness. Otherwise its just sickening to watch her behavior and think she is just really selfish and stupid.

She has a Bipolar diagnosis.

 

[4greatboys]

She has a Bipolar diagnosis.

Thank You

 

[mickeysgal]

The paparazzi didn't force her refuse to return her children to their custodial parent or to lock herself in a bathroom with her crying, terrified children. The paparazzi aren't forcing her to show up at Starbucks or CVS or various gas stations every single day.

Her current boyfriend is a paparazzi photographer, so she apparently doesn't hate all of them.

She's in the spotlight because she purposely and repeatedly seeks the spotlight.

Bolding mine. Yes, exactly. That is what I mean, repeatedly seeking the spotlight is all she knows how to do. Any attention, even if negative attention is attention and keeps her in the spotlight. It's all that she has been trained to do. She doesn't know how to act normal because nothing she has ever known or experienced has been normal. We (the collective we) are trying to apply normal, everyday, common sense logic to a person that does not know normal, everyday anything. Think about it. Does anyone think that they'd come out normal after living the kind of life she has lived? You'd hope so, but the reality is, I doubt it.

 

[wilderness01]

Those boys are such cuties. It is just so sad for them.

 

[Tuffcookie]

What does it take to get someone probated? She obviously has mental illness. Instead of having custody hearings, someone should be getting the ball rolling to get her institutionalized! Instead, we're hearing about her latest antics every time we turn on the news. How sad that watching the mentally ill has become a spectator sport.

TC