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I would imagine that losing visitation rights to your kids, as Spears did, would be a pretty strong motivator.
I don't want to comment on Britney Spears in particular, but I will tell you, what's going to motivate any one individual is going to depend a lot on a few factors. Number one, what is important to that individual? For some people, losing a driver's license is a major motivator to get into treatment. For other people losing a spouse or a job can be the major motivator. Sometimes it takes the threat of legal action to get somebody into treatment. There's always the very important factor of how much insight somebody has into their situation. Because it can take a number of life calamities for some people to realize they've got a problem.
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Posted By: mjkittredge @ 05/10/2008 11:13:21 PM
Comment: Psychiatry is a joke unfortunately. They try to create dependence on more psychiatry and popping pills (which studies show, often don't work).
One source says "Psychiatry is a medical specialty which exists to study, prevent, and treat mental disorders in humans." Now it's just about pushing pills. And those 'doctors' are all in bed with the pharmaceutical industry. Their concern has shifted from helping people to profiting.
Posted By: billybungo2000 @ 02/04/2008 7:47:13 AM
Comment: If she was a black man behaving in the same way they would diagnose schizphrenia - bi-polar is less stimatising for us poor white folk, but both diagnosis are equily scientifically invalid and unreliable constructs (this is why medicine and psychiatary will never be really the same thing Dr Leuchter sorry). She is distressed and I don't blame her.
Posted By: antip @ 02/04/2008 7:46:08 AM
Comment: If she was a black man behaving in the same way they would diagnose schizphrenia - bi-polar is less stimatising for us poor white folk, but both diagnosis are equily scientifically invalid and unreliable constructs (this is why medicine and psychiatary will never be really the same thing Dr Leuchter sorry). She is distressed and I don't blame her.