I agree. I’m hoping, as sick as it is to hope for this, that they’ve been threatened into silence. If they’ve just been silent of their own accord, they’re complicit.

Absolutely. I don’t know if this is a symptom of the patriarchy or the male dominated attitude towards mental health, but asking someone who has been repeatedly traumatized for decades to not sound like they’ve been traumatized in order to stop being traumatized is some next level crazy.

I have a loved one with Bipolar Type 2 and have seen them spiral to the point where a conservatorship would have been something that should have been at least considered. I can understand, given what her behavior was 13 years ago, why the conservatorship was put in place at that time if she does actually have a mental…

Honestly, the fact that they would prevent an almost 40-year-old woman from removing her IUD is maybe what I found most upsetting. Her father should not have the right to decide whether or not she has another baby, and the fact that she is pleading for her freedom while she is up against the biological clock on this…

I’m not sure why you seem under the impression that someone who has experienced years of trauma and abuse at the hands of family members—primarily her own father—ought to be able to speak calmly about it for 20 minutes after years of being silenced and gaslit. And that she didn’t articulate her abuse to your…

The fact remains that people with mental illness can still be determined to have capacity. Just watched a man incapable of living alone sign a bunch of papers today - unpressured - to agree to his treatment regimen and Advanced Directive. This case is absurd from my perspective (someone who works with people pre- and…

This is what it sounds like when the traumatized try to speak about their trauma.

This is mostly correct, in particular with regards to the lack of public safety nets and support for the mentally ill and their families (unless there’s a case of imminent risk to self or others).

Man, I don’t like Britney. But she made the music, she went on tour, she put in the hours. Her family literally leeched off her (I'm looking at you too, Jamie Lynn). She made the money. If she's batshit crazy, it's her money. It's her life. Let her live. Leave her alone. 

Yeah, there’s a lot of things about this case that are mind-boggling.

I had no idea about that. It made me gasp. That is shockingly evil.

If she’s able to tour and do a Vegas residency, then there’s no justification for the level of control Britney describes. This isn’t just fans filling in the blanks. The fact that her team felt they could even ask her to perform at that level undermines the argument that she’s too sick to be able to make basic…

not allowed to be near her children, but still allowed to control her. absolute shame. 

he’s been forcing her to dance for passersby since she was a child

I said it before that Jamie Spears is a predator and the rest of the family was in on it, and people on here were whining about how I didn’t know the whole story. Well, the whole story is out, and dude is even worse than I thought. This nonsense needs to end now.

her full statement is worth the read

This conservatorship is an absolute disgrace. Britney Spears has certainly displayed very concerning behavior before, she has well-documented mental health issues, and I have no doubt she would struggle, maybe mightily, to handle her own affairs. And, so what? That last sentence describes lots of people, including…

It’s like an episode The Handmaid’s Tale. They would never rob a man of his bodily control over a pretty pedestrian breakdown (I challenge you to find a parent who hasn’t had one at least once) and a treatable mental illness. This situation is sick.

the IUD...just...my goodness

wow this is so much worse than we thought