I, too, saw all the sites calling Brit fat after the VMAs, which is a sick representation of our society. When that's fat, it's no wonder girls get eating disorders.
And I'm sorta starting to feel bad for the kid, you know? I heard someone hypothesize that she's bipolar and it's starting to make more and more sense. Crazy highs, impulsive and/or dangerous behavior, self-medication, and shutting out anyone trying to crash her mood (her mom?). This is the part we see, the crazy stuff. The part we don't see is the depression, when she disappears for days, weeks, when she is too tired to put on shoes to go into a public restroom. Bipolar disorder most often expresses itself in late adolescence to early adulthood.
Imagine if you had a disease that is widely misdiagnosed because no one asks the right questions and you don't know the symptoms of the highs and lows are related. The average bipolar person exhibits symptoms for 10 years before diagnosis. Plus, you have enough money to shut out anyone who disagrees with you during the highs, which makes the lows even worse. When you only have "yes" people around you that are hanging on for the next party, no one is interested in getting you well.
And if you're misdiagnosed because you only complain of the depressive symptoms, you might end up taking antidepressants, which will make the mania worse without a mood stabilizer. Brit could have been put on an antidepressants in treatment as part of her recovery. That would explain her increasingly bizarre behavior since then.
An additional note: The correlation between bipolar disorder and creativity is startlingly high. Feel free to begin the snide comments.
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You know, that makes a LOT of sense.
Hmm.. that is a pretty good theory. The bit about the antidepressents making the mania worse- that is a really good point. Especially if it's true that she was being treated for PPD.
Yeah, I would guess she's a pretty good cantidate for bi-polar.
Stressful life events can trigger a pre existing condition to manifest. Two kids in a year, being married to someone you barely know (who it turns out may not be as bad as it seems) would trigger something like that in just about anyone.
This seems to be an odd case of media-fueled vitriol directed at Spears’ handlers by proxy. Sadly, the proxy for Spears the Product just so happens to be Spears the Human Being.
Ultimately, I’m pretty confident she will weather the storm. Keep in mind, she’s a former Mouseketeer: the public will come to terms with woman-sized, bipolar Britney the same way it accepted Keri Russell cutting her hair and Christina Aguilera not acknowledging my angry, drunken phone calls.
It does make sense. BIL's ex-wife was bipolar (hence, the ex since she refused to medicate). It's not fun stuff to deal with!
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