Britney Spears’ dad Jamie Spears has angrily banned the family from any involvement or participation with Dr. Phil’s planned Britney-intervention episode, a source linked to Dr. Phil’s camp tells Life & Style.
“As soon as Jamie realized Dr. Phil was making public statements about Britney, including assessments of her condition, he got angry. He started making phone calls to everybody in the family, telling them not to cooperate with Dr. Phil.
“Jamie was totally incensed that Dr. Phil who he knows a little, because Lynne is friends with Dr. Phil’s wife was using Britney for self-promotion.
“Dr. Phil had told Jamie everything would be off the record until the show was done.
“But after Jamie made his phone calls, Lynne and Bryan [their son] agreed not to appear on Dr. Phil’s show.”
[Via Life&Style News Flash]
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I can totally understand this whole sitch and why her fam is pissed. But, I don’t think Dr Phil needs anymore promotion, he doesn’t need self promotion at all, so I don’t think he is just out to make himself look better. Dr Phil seems like the only media outlet who seems to actually cares about her well being. He did a show when Sean & Jayden were taken away the first time, and he seemed sincere and concerened about her. And now he is the ONLY person who will tell it like it is. He has always said she needs mental help, and he seems to be the only one who says anything at all. From what I have read so far today, he, to me, seems like he wants her to get the help she needs, not just tell her waht she wants to hear. I was completely shocked when I found out she was released from the hospital, because she needs to stay there and get some help. She is mentally unstable, WE, the normal people who can’t do anything about it, know that, why can’t the professionals do anything about it? I am really concerned for her life. I am NOT a fan of hers, never was, but I am really concerned now. I know she does this all to herself, and that is the scariest part, that she won’t help herself. Now she is off to some part of CA with that paparazzi guy, Adnan?! Why can’t anyone do anything to help this girl? I know she is 25, but can’t someone do something? Anything? Or she really will end up dead.
I understand exactly where you are coming from. Britney does need help, but how can anyone give a person help who doesn’t want to receive it? The biggest issue, is that the “patient” (sorry know no other word for it right now) is in denial. The best way to address it is in a form of intervention. Get everyone together and talk to her heart to heart, that way she will only hear what she needs to hear, not what she wants to hear.
Unfortunately, due to her fame, she has a lot of brown nosers that are dying to tell her what she wants to hear to get their 15 minutes of fame. That makes it very difficult for her to break the cycle. Even more so, there is no legal way to force her into help, unless she poses a threat to herself or others. Suicidal threats, thoughts or attempts will give them that right, but there is a fine line between what is legal and what is Britney’s choice alone.
When you simply look at the facts, it is Britney’s responsibility to seek out and accept help from others. Her family and friends can lead her down the right path and even make it easier for her to achieve it, but in the end, it is Britney’s choice to accept the help she needs, which right now, she clearly refuses. The only way she would be exempt from this responsibility is if she is clinically proven insane, which she is not.
I know there is a lot of fans out there who want the best for her, and are having a difficult time dealing with all these choices she is making. I am a fan too, I want the best for her as well. I don’t think she is a bad person at all, I just don’t feel its very supportive to basically exempt her from any and all responsibility. It may prevent a depressive/manic episode, however it will enable her to ignore the underlying issue. AKA, acceptance of her mental issues and acknowledgment of her power to cope with them.
What Britney needs most is honestly and support. She is clearly making poor decisions, and needs to be held accountable for them to help her understand the seriousness of her situation. She may have had a very bad situation, but not all of it is beyond her control. She needs to find those things she has control over and embrace them.
Finally, changing the subject to the family, I know there is a lot of mixed feelings towards her family and friends. The main point I want to make is if Britney is Bipolar, then keep in mind that would change her perspective and therefore change her opinions over her family and friends. Her family may very well be doing everything they can to help her, we simply do not know. It really isn’t their fault that all this happened, at least to our knowledge.
Dear Dr. Phil,
Just make sure Britney gets some treatment and meds, somehow.
In the end, the rest (Jamie and Lynn and ratings and money) don’t matter.
Dear Dr. Phil,
Please stop targeting BRitney; she’s not listening anyway. Please talk to Jive and convince them to put her career on hold because she’s a human being in trouble, not a cash cow.
Bloody do gooders who reckon there “help” is required. Britneys behaviour under her circumstances is perfectly normal, but if these psyches had their way they would have her on all kinds of meds that would ruin her.
So long as the psyches stay out and she gets a bit of sympathy instead of psychoanalysis, I reckon she will bounce back twice as big and laugh in the face of all the people saying she is mentally ill.
What a load of nonsense, the girl is quite normal, it is the Dr Phils of this world who are quiet mental.
FYI, “Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.” [http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/index.shtml]
Its not that unusual, so in a way, normal is dealing with acute cases of mental illness.
Do you really think she is normal? Mentally? REally? Didn’t you see the pics from the ambulance? She looks terrified one minute, and smiling and laughing the next. Poor thing is imbalanced, and needs some meds to help her be normal. Are you a Scientologist Clare??????
dr phil is so good i just love him so nice of him to try to help this poor soul. he is my hero. thanks dr phil for taking time out of your busy life to try to help brittany,
Someone has to do something, are there laws in America that stop you endangering yourself. Medical help is obviously the answer and if this girl ever wants to have a good life with her kids she has to admit SHE NEEDS HELP.
Common Britney do it for your babies if not for yourself, show K-Fed you are a good mother and role model and do it for your fans who seem to be supporting you no matter what. If you were my daughter I would be there for you 100%, where are your family. Maybe the whole family is in dire need of therapy before something bad happens.
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