yet again common sense say "no shit".

Wanna preview of coming attractions?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VhlhE32SoXs

"The dream she had clung so desperately had enfolded her."

Maybe she has mad cow disease, from eating all that cheap take-out beef. I feel like her brain must be turning spongy.

It could be a commercial campaign: THIS is the face of mad cow.

very sad. =( i hope she gets the help that she needs and that the little toddlers are ok. mental illness isn't funny.

If it is a mental illness that's causing her behaviour, it's gonna be as long of a road to recovery as if it were drugs. It seems to take forever to find the right mix of medication to treat the problem.

If it's be-polar, there will (most likely) be another struggle to keep her taking her meds. The trend with BP is they take their meds till they feel "normal" then decide they must not need them any more. It's a vicious cycle.

I really do hope the babies are okay.

Told you!!

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Crazy is as psycho does.

I think the tests probably weren't thorough enough.

rainbowfish, you're totally right. Mental illness isn't funny. I've struggled with depression and anxiety issues for most of my life but I have a handle on them and don't act like that.

I don't think she has mental health issues, I just think she's so desperate for love that it's literally killing her. That's not funny either. That's sad as shit. It becomes "funny" due to its ridiculousness (word?). It's also wholly uncomfortable to see someone act so foolish.

I don't think she's grown up enough to handle the fame she has. I also don't think that she's ever been smart enough. The poor thing is a product of her environment and eventually she'll beat it or it will beat her.

Anyone that's grown up with this sort of stuff knows that the only way to deal with the crazies is a sense of humor…if you took it seriously you'd be a nut, too.

I grew up in the south and am the prodigal son, of sorts, to a southern baptist family that would rather me pray to jesus than take anti-depressants. There seems to be a stigma associated with any problems jesus can't fix for you.. anyway - my point is.. we know this girl is country - so couple that with the madness that celebrity is and there's really no hope for her. jesus can't fix it, money can't fix it in her eyes she's screwed. sad :(

we all handle mental illness differently.

i have a friend with bipolar but she takes her meds regularly and you'd never know it. my younger sister and mother however, are bipolar and schizophrenic and they act pretty similar to ms spears (without the oodles of cash and enablers of course).

Actually, she is in prime age territory for schizophrenia to be coming out. Oh dear, Ms. Spears.

My husband is bi-polar and has OCD on top of it. It took 10 years to find the proper meds to effectively treat him. It took another 5 years, the threat of a divorce and being kept from our daughter to get him to stay on the meds.

I love my husband completely but he knows that if he stops taking his meds again, I will pack up his stuff, change the locks and go through with the divorce. When we married we both said "sickness and in health" but if he CHOOSES to stop the meds, CHOOSES to let the illness control him and CHOOSES to endanger our child, then he's on his own.

I wonder how her mother feels right now. One daughter going nuts, the other pregnant.

yah, it's been about 23 years since my mother was diagnosed (same age as brit, two toddlers too!) but we still haven't found the right combo of meds for her. back then, doctors thought schizophrenia was caused by her parents divorcing or some crap like that.
i just hope that if she actually IS sick, people quit with the horrible "i hope she kills herself" stuff. it would be nice if america realized that mental illness is something that happens to a lot of people, they can't help it and they need assistance.

Poor Brit. Every downfall of her life has to be out on public display. That alone can take a toll on a person. I hope she gets well soon.

If they haven't already, rainbow… look into depakote. It's an anti-psychotic that has doen wonders for my hubby. It has to be carefully monitored (quarterly blood tests to check the level in his system) but it's been a god-send for our family.

thanks for the advice, sugar.
i'll ask my gram what she's on now…depakote sounds familiar. she doesn't take good care of herself and has really high cholesterol and blood pressure so the meds she can be on are limited.

While I'm fascinated by this slow-motion train wreck going down before my very eyes, this quote on Perez made me sad:

“They had to strap her down like a mental patient and she was going between laughing and hysterics,” a source tells Us Weekly, calling it “a total psychotic breakdown. She just went crazy."

Another Spears pal says: "I guess she has good days and bad days - it's mental instability. All she has is to think of something sad and she goes crazy.”

While she (mostly) fans the flames of her drama all on her own, the fact that it gets criticized/scrutinized by the public
(myself included) must totally blow.

Give me crazy Lilo anyday over this nutjob!!!!

Agreed, BeA. It's not fun to watch someone actually lose their mind.

A drama queen with a case of bad theatrics. In my part of the country, we'd call this asshole white trash in an ambulance with full medical coverage.

It's probably the pregnancy hormones, but this situation has nearly brought me to tears. I've been suspecting that Britney has SERIOUS mental problems since shortly after Kevin moved out, and it saddens me. It's easy to feel contempt for someone who drove themselves to madness by choosing to take drugs, but when I think of what my own maturity level was when I was 15 years old, her situation seems inevitable. I literally had days where I thought I was losing my mind, and I think what saved me from staying mired in my own self-pity and immaturity was cutting myself loose from my parents and my hometown as soon as my freshman year of college was finished…traveling, supporting myself, just plain having experiences outside of the tiny little world I'd known my whole life. I feel sorry for Britney, because that fragile young woman has no idea what her life would be like if she weren't famous. Ultimately, I feel sorry for those 2 boys, because neither of their parents is going to be worried about their education or know how to nurture them.

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Anybody ever read that book? Deja vu. Britney living in her own land completely with crazy language.

She also looks naked.

It's refreshing to see a kind of crazy that's organic. I'm sick of the canned, fake variety.

It does have to be pretty hard to be her sometimes. We have to realize that this girl dropped out of school after her freshman year. So what you have now is a 13 year old with an income of $750K per month (and the ability to drive as well as drink). I'm not saying she's innocent, but I think it's a combination of pressure, the mental immaturity to handle herself as a mom and a person, the fact that no one has ever had the balls to tell her "no", and perhaps some freaky hormonal imbalance after having two kids in rapid succession. Sometimes I feel bad for her and other times I want to slap her.

I'm going to be the asshole and say I still hope she offs herself.
And yes, I've dealt with paranoid schzophrenia: My mother. My mother thought it would be a super idea to drink windshield washer solvent on the rocks. Twice. She also saw fit to put rat poison in spaggeti sauce and feed it to us when I was 6. She also saw it fit to pull knives on my brother and I several times. She also saw fit to pull shotguns on my family. She also saw fit to sleep for days at a time and not feed us, make us walk to school in the rain. She CHOSE not to take her meds. She also CHOSE to walk out 15 years ago. Best decision she's ever made. I still wish death on her.

I've also dealt with PTSD that I, myself, have. As well as, depression and anxiety issues. I don't pull the shit she does and I've survived horrible atrocities that most people can't fathom.
My brother also suffers from PTDS from being in Iraq (the first time around) and has a chemical imbalance. My father also suffers from depression and PTDS (from Vietnam).

I'm the posterchild for mental illness and dealing with it.

With that said, Fuck no I don't feel one bit sorry for her. She CHOOSES not to get help, for anything or anyone. She CHOOSES to keep her family at bay. She CHOOSES to make shitty, stupid decisions. She's a spoiled self entitled cunt who thinks she has no boundaries.

Mae I understand what you're saying, and agree with most of it; however, none of us who have had meltdowns/breakdowns/hit bottom had the pleasure of going through all that shit in front of 200 photographers, and the entire world…of course that's the price of fame and wealth, I guess.

I also had a tough time, years ago, I truly thought I was going crazy….can't imagine dealing with all that pain and shit in front of prying eyes of the public.

Most people aren't blessed enough to get a second chance at fixing their major fuckups/regrets…She needs to go away, take a long ass nap, ditch her sleazy "friends", and get to work on starting over. Whether she chooses to or not is her decision- and entirely her fault- if she fails to see this event as the blessing in disguise that it can be for her.

Oh, and she needs to lose the crappy weave, too.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOO MAE!!!!!!

Mae get ahold of yourself. Jeez.
And Depakote is not an antipsychotic, it is an anti-seizure med that also sometimes works to tame manic episodes in bi-polar people. I suspect that Brit is having bipolar cycles. The hair-shaving episode and this one seem very typical of a manic episode. For the record, I am bipolar and I take my meds, and i'm in remission.

At first I thought wow this bitch is crazy and needs to chill but now I am kind of feeling sorry for her. She obviously wants to spend more time with her boys she is just doing it the wrong way. Then it wound up like this. I just hope everything works out for her and she starts to get better. I will be praying for her.

Maybe I am just in the help rather than hate mood today though lol

BeA, I understand what you are saying. I believe Britney does not think she is doing anything wrong. The whole "I'm too sick to goto court, but not too sick to go party that night." etc., is stuff I did in Highschool. (not court, but going to school) because I didn't want to go. Hell, I did it last week. I was "too sick" for an interview, but not too sick to goto a fashion show/party that night. (I know, I know. irresponsible)
I do not think she is crazy, in the sense that clinically diagnosed people are. I believe she is deluded from fame, spoiled from never being disciplined (which, I can also relate to, as I always got whatever I want growing up, thus programming me to be a spoiled self-entitled rotten bitch until reality punched me in the face)

Riddle me this, what's the difference between her surrealist and deluded behaviours than say, Michael Jackson (minus the child thing) or Tom Cruise jumping up and down on Oprah's sofa? These two have certainly acted erratically, but you don't see anyone using the "He's Bipolar! He has a mental illness" card.

Oh I most certainly think Wacko Jacko and Closet Cruise have some mental issues…but don't we all?!

And I can relate to your "reality punching you in the face"…yeah those were fun times. Sad that some people continue to get punched/kicked in the nuts/etc and STILL fail to get a clue and basically grow up…

Sigh. I need me some BALE.
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if she is actually ill, that's quite the judgment, mae. illness effects everyone differently and it's not fair to compare one person's life like that to another's.
not everyone who is ill acknowledges that he or she is ill or has a supportive family or circle of friends.

I'm glad to see that no one here is really blaming Kevin Federline. I mean, he's no prize or anything, but people make it sound like he was the one that lured her into her trashiness. I think she was a little unhinged before they got together, otherwise she would have stayed away from him. However, it seems like he's actually turning out to be less asshole-icous than previously thought.

Ah, thats what bootylicious means.

Lemme climb back on my soap box and direct this to rainbow fish; my family abandoned me in my most fucked up state and I turned out pretty good. Now let me break my arm patting myself on the back. Stop making excuses for her! Chris Turner? Tucker? Thomas? Defended her and what did she do? Told him to fuck off basically. That's what I do, rainbow fish. I judge people! It makes me feel good about myself. Teehee!!

*I'm hoping my sarcasm is picked up in that last post*

my mother is schizophrenic too and left me on a highway, caused serious injury on my siblings and myself later and was in and out of my life always too. i turned out ok too but i'm not asking for a cookie. i just think that all the condemnation and judgment is unneeded.
no need to get so hostile with me.

many of us have lived through mental illness and family members with it. And nobody is asking for cookies but having sympathy for someone who is intent on staying in the downward spiral is hard.

If she takes this and does something to turn things around, awesome. If not, blah, blah, blah, idiot.

Crazy like a fox! Shitney dressed for the occasion in a sexy black neglige and real shiney "earbobs", ya'll, 'cuz she knowed them guys with the cameras wuz gonna' be thar! How did the paps get so close without a smackdown from the coppers?

She look goooooood. I'm sure with her mentality thats all that counts.