Freed Britney. Yay or nay?

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I am not going to give my opinion as I feel like the opinion will be jumped on either way. More interested in whether others think Britney Spears is surviving, thriving or diving since the end of her conservatorship?

Well your opinion is obviously nay otherwise you wouldn't have asked. But who cares? The girl has been locked away for most of her adult life and abused horribly and has no family. Let her live, dance and be who the hell she wants to be.

Far too early to say surely? But I haven't seen anything that suggests she is so dangerously out of control that she can't be trusted to take care of her own affairs. The bar for that should be set pretty high.

(Obviously I don't mean based on what you have seen first hand, can't imagine her best mate is a lurker, but from press coverage/social media presence etc).

Bleurgh why are you rhyming, it makes you look really shallow.

Adults are allowed to make bad decisions. Can you imagine a man ever being subjective to such controls?

Work for a tabloid do you?

What a horrible thread

@rightsideoftheroad I am not married to a yay or a nay hypothesis. I was interested in hearing opinions, if I wanted validation or rejection I would have posted in AIBU.

I think she's doesn't 'do' social media like her peers. So most of the celebs post highly polished, photoshopped versions of their life and she just posts whatever, photoshops badly and refers to it openly in her posts and waffles a stream of consciousness. She's missed out on years of the development of all this and I don't think she quite gets it.

It's well know she has a mental health condition, and what her family did to her was appalling. Hopefully she can now get her own medical team, and be happy and healthy. Even if she is mentally ill, lots of people are. It doesn't mean they need a conservatorship that is tantamount to house arrest with listening and recording devices in her bedroom.

There was a long running thread on here a while ago, just before all of this really came to light and I seem to recall the general feeling was that she was very very unwell and basically being cared for with her home being like a nursing home for her. Well that was wrong!

@sparklemagicsnow, thanks. Didn't know about that thread. I am reading a book on complex PTSD and thought of Britney, and there is a section on how you process trauma and turn it into a side story of your life rather than a definition. She is only 40, so I was wondering if that might happen?

@MrsRobinsonsHandprints no, I don't work for a tabloid. I do have a vested interest, not from a work POV though.

I think she is probably being controlled by her boyfriend.

She's still posting the same things on insta - her posing with a crop top and twirling around dancing. She wears really low rise shorts and crop tops - same as always.

I imagine it's all been a tremendous head fuck and it will take her a long time to work out which of her issues are situational and which are chemical.

Definitely. I have been sectioned, twice. I got secondary trauma from staying on a psychiatric ward. Both less than a year. I can't imagine that length of time and the damage it caused.

I think the end of the control over her can only be a good thing. She seems like she is adjusting to the freedom and being able to do and say whatever she wants.

What makes me sad though is how a lot of her posts are quite sexualised- it’s like she’s never known anything different. I can’t even begin to imagine what she has been through. I really hope she has someone caring for her that isn’t motivated by her bank balance.

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I think the end of the control over her can only be a good thing. She seems like she is adjusting to the freedom and being able to do and say whatever she wants.

What makes me sad though is how a lot of her posts are quite sexualised- it’s like she’s never known anything different. I can’t even begin to imagine what she has been through. I really hope she has someone caring for her that isn’t motivated by her bank balance.

The posts are quite sexualised. She posted a load of nudes a while back. I took that as 1) it's what she knows how to do, having been doing it since she was little more than a child (ugh) and 2) it was a big fat fuck you to her Dad who'd never have allowed it. Sort of a 'I am my own person and ill do what I like with my body!'

Interesting that her Dad won't answer calls for a deposition, isn't it. I've no doubt that she has issues but there is also no doubt that the conservatorship was incredibly abusive.

It is worrying that she's hell bent on having a baby after marrying the boyfriend. You wonder what sort of life that child will have. I get that she wants a second chance at motherhood having had her children removed the first time (rightly or wrongly? Who knows) but it doesn't seem to most stable environment for a baby. But then, millions of people have babies every day when their situations aren't ideal and I guess why should she be any different? At least she has the wealth to have decent nannies etc if needed.

She needs to adjust, let her be. Great she fonnaly said her peace regarding dianne sawyer