How Psychiatry Destroyed Britney Spears
The following is republished with permission from AbleChild.
The tragic downfall of Britney Spears, the Princess of Pop, played out on a global stage, and many would argue all at the hands of those who were closest to the musical phenom and should have provided the protection she most needed. The fact is, while Spears’ family should have been an advocate for the superstar, it was their reliance on the failed mental health system that forever took the life out of Britney Spears and should be a lesson to those following in the singer’s footsteps.
Spears came from humble beginnings in a small Mississippi town but quickly made a name for herself starring in The All-New Mickey Mouse Club and, still as a teenager, moved quickly into a global recording phenomenon with the hit single Baby One More Time.
It’s reported that the then pop sensation, prior to her being forced into a conservatorship, had amassed a $600 million fortune built on many revenue streams including nearly $70 million from album sales, concert tours and Vegas residency more than $400 million, perfumes earnings and substantial investment properties to name a few.
However, in February of 2008 Spears was forced to submit to an involuntary psychiatric hold at which point Spears father, Jamie, and attorney M. Wallet were granted a temporary conservatorship that lasted thirteen years. By the end of that conservatorship, Spears’ fortune had dwindled to a reported $60 million, leaving many to wonder where the hundreds of millions of dollars had gone. More importantly, though, the question that really needs to be addressed is the abusive power that the psychiatric industry has to involuntarily imprison.
It’s hard to know just when Spears began taking prescribed psychiatric drugs but apparently mentions the use of ADHD drugs like Adderall early in her career and later mentions that her psychiatrist, Dr. Timothy Benson, had switched her medications to lithium. It is of great interest that the judge in Spears conservatorship fight agreed to have all the singer’s mental health records sealed, including her mind-altering drug prescriptions. Why?
There is little doubt that Spears was heavily drugged very early in her career. That she was put lithium is shocking as it was at a time when Spears was making albums, touring globally and fulfilling a long-term residency in Las Vegas. How mentally out of it could the singer have been and still fulfilled all these obligations?
Unfortunately, psychiatrist Benson died two weeks prior to the conservatorship hearing leaving many holes in Spears’ mental health “treatment.” However, over the years, Bi-polar and Dementia have been mentioned as possible mental health diagnoses that Spears received and reportedly was “treated” for.
Once under the conservatorship, Spears had little control over her life. For example, for 13 years, Spears’ father and lawyer Wallet controlled the singer’s fortune, financial decisions, business deals, who could and could not visit the star, when she was allowed to visit her two children and, most importantly, all medical decisions.
During the June 2021 request to terminate the conservatorship, Spears testified that she had suffered abuse at the hands of her father, management and family including coercion and conflicts of interest.
The singer’s father and attorney reversed their position, requesting to be terminated as conservators. The request was granted, and many believe the termination was due to anticipated discovery and deposition requests that certainly would have provided detail best left unknown.
Nevertheless, the matter of the mental health abuse that Spears was subjected to still needs to be resolved. Spears herself could do the world a huge favor by requesting that her mental health records be open for public review.
Shining a light on the number of mental disorders that were inflicted upon the singer and the “treatments” prescribed during that 13-year conservatorship would go a long way to revealing the kind of abuse that one is subjected to by the psychiatric industry, even if one is rich and famous.
It is of interest that Spears wanted no part of any kind of psychiatric mental tests and openly described cocktails of drugs she’d been prescribed and forced to take prior to being forced to take lithium.
Some of the known adverse events associated with lithium include confusion, delirium, hallucinations, restlessness, tics and fatigue. However, those are just some of the adverse effects of one drug. What if Spears had been on a cocktail of psychiatric drugs including an antidepressant or antipsychotic or both?
Throwing in an antidepressant and antipsychotic some of the known adverse events include insomnia, paranoia, abnormal thinking, agitation, aggression, depersonalization, mania, psychotic episodes and suicidal thinking and attempt.
Knowing the possible side effects of the possible “treatments” prescribed to Spears makes it much easier to understand the odd behavior the public was subjected to, like Spears shaving off her hair. Spears told the court that “I felt drunk… I couldn’t even have a conversation with my mom or dad really about anything.” Spears also reflected on her drugging, saying “I told him I was scared… there were six different nurses in my home, and they wouldn’t let me get in my car to go anywhere for a month.”
Spears has not performed professionally since 2018 but too often the public is subjected to Spears social media posts where she is clad in what looks like bras and panties and wielding knives in what appears to be moments of mania.
One can only wonder what psychiatric mind-altering drug regimen Spears is being subjected to today. But after decades of taking these psychiatric “treatments” there is little doubt that Spears will ever be drug free again. Withdrawal from so many drug cocktails seems almost impossible.
More than that, one certainly can’t help but wonder if Spears has ever been given the truth about the mental disorders she’s been diagnosed with. There is no science to support any abnormality that is any psychiatric diagnosis. Moreover, the psychiatric drugs she’s been prescribed do not “treat” any known abnormality and the pharmaceutical companies that produce the drugs admit they do not know how they “work” as “treatment” for any alleged mental illness.
Of course, Spears isn’t the first entertainer to be abused by and suffer at the hands of the psychiatric industry as Frances Farmer and Judy Garland come to mind. But, today, Spears has the chance, with her new-found freedom, to show the world exactly how she was abused by the fraudulent psychiatric industry.
Spears does not need the court’s permission to release her mental health records. That one brave act would be a healing process and a cleansing from terrible abuse. With those documents made public, Spears could finally set the record straight.
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