Britney Spears: It’s Groundhog Day Every Day
She’s got a new album coming out in a month, she’s recently regained some quality times with her kids, she’s working on a major comeback from what was literally the pit, and she’s looking better than she has in ages, but Britney Spears still isn’t happy. In a new documentary she is featured in, Britney reveals not only that she feels trapped inside the same old same old every day, but (in my opinion) that she’s not quite out of the woods yet when it comes to her mental health issues:
In a new fly-on-the-wall documentary she admits: ‘There’s no excitement, there’s no passion.
‘I have really good days, and then I have bad days. Even when you go to jail, y’know, there’s the time when you’re gonna get out.
‘But in this situation, it’s never ending. It’s just like Groundhog Day every day.’
Britney believes she is still being forced to ‘pay’ for her well-documented meltdown.
She says: ‘I think it’s too in control. If I wasn’t under the restraints I’m under, I’d feel so liberated. When I tell them the way I feel, it’s like they hear but they’re really not listening.
‘If you do something wrong in your work, you can move on, but I’m having to pay for a long time.
‘I never wanted to become one of those prisoner people. I always wanted to feel free.’
‘I think I’ve learnt my lesson now and enough is enough.’
No, Britney. I don’t believe you are ready.
You see, she’s looking at it wrong. People aren’t out to “make her pay”. Nobody is trying to sit her in the time-out chair and punish her for acting bad or having a tantrum. She has mental health issues, and from all accounts very serious ones. When someone deals with a mental illness (in Britney’s case, it is widely believed to be bipolar disorder), it takes a long time to come back from that. It is a day to day process, sometimes a minute to minute process, and sometimes people do start to believe that they are being “punished” for acting like a bad child…if you’d just lighten up on them and leave them alone, they’d show you that they could behave and act right.
But this isn’t about desiring to behave or punishment or anything like that. Britney was, and I believe still is, a very sick young lady. She needs her father acting as conservator right now simply because the courts and medical professionals do not believe that she is capable of handling anything that serious at the moment. That doesn’t mean that at some point in the future, she won’t be able to…it just means that right now, there’s still a ways to go. She also needs to take her medication and see her doctor on a regular basis. I certainly do hope that she does not decide she’s “well” now and go off her meds, as so many are prone to do when they start to feel better. I understand that she’s speaking from the patient’s viewpoint, and it might seem to her as though some of the restrictions are harsh, but by all appearances they really are not…they are for her own good, and as she gets better she will get more and more things back.
And let’s face it…she’s got more freedom and more resources at her disposal than the average twenty-something single mom. When was the last time you hopped on a private plane and flew several states away just to visit your relatives? Or jetted off to Mexico just to play in the surf? Or decided to sell your house in an exclusive gated community…but it’s okay, you have other houses to live in? In some ways she is restrained, but in other ways she has a lot of freedom, plus resources. No, money doesn’t buy happiness, but Britney has to realize that she’s got it pretty good. I mean, compare Brit’s life to that of a single mom on welfare, or to a senior citizen struggling to pay the heat bill, or to the pregnant teenage drug addict, and I have a hard time coming up with sympathy for her “I feel like I’m in jail” pity party.
And yes, Brit…for so many of us, every day IS Groundhog Day, in that we do the same things over and over and over and over. Life isn’t one big steaming bowl of Excitement Flakes, and the sooner you realize that the better. You take the good parts when you get them, hope the bad parts go away fairly quickly, and you learn to be grateful for what you have instead of whining about what you don’t have…because it can all go away just like that.
Brit, just a word of advice…stick with it. Don’t jump ship now just because you feel like you’re being punished, because you’re not. Look at your life and realize just how good you have it. Everyone is trying to help you. Let them.
Do you really want to go back to the way things were?
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Poor Britney, still nutty enough to not know she’s still nutty. I do hope she gets well enough to get some control back in her life, I am sure it feels stifling at times. Great post k, glad we have you to keep things in perspective.
Comment by D — November 18, 2008 @ 4:40 pm
why do they always air brush britney’s albums and ads? it looks so phoney; she looks pretty good the way she is, they don’t need to air brush her.
Comment by sally — November 18, 2008 @ 8:33 pm
I thought when they did Britney’s Blackout album photos she still basically looked like she did at the time, only a little slimmer. But now it’s like we’re time traveling back to 2000 when she actually looked like this. I’ve seen her recent pictures, but she’s still not quite to this level yet.
Then again, if she IS bipolar, nobody is going to take her “boo hoo it’s Groundhog’s Day” crap too seriously. My bi-polar friends would mope and groan and cry about how Pizza Hut got their order wrong. “I hate onions… boo hoo… why me… boo hoo…” Not to insult bi-polar people. It’s a crappy disease, but Britney definitely has it good, as you said. Her crazy shit kept her making nearly 800,000 bucks a month EVEN THOUGH SHE WASN’T WORKING.
Comment by Brooke — November 18, 2008 @ 10:18 pm
I want things to go back to the head-shaving days. That was comedy gold, and she (along with most celebs) needs reminding she’s no more than an overpaid court jester.
Comment by Anon E. Mouse — November 19, 2008 @ 10:32 pm
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