Brittany Spears, she's on fire tonight 😬

[Comfysock]

She's just popped up on my IG and gosh she dancing 10 fold tonight!!!

Dont know what it is but it all intrigues me, she looms happy enough though 💃

No one knows her medical details. Just because it says in those documents she had a form of dementia, doesn't make it true. Her dad wasn't past lying to get what he wanted

Also she performed for years and years after the supposed diagnosis so I tbh highly doubt it, especially as very early onset dementias tend to progress with extreme rapidity and she'd be dead or completely incapacitated by now.

Who's to say what the actual situation is but she's clearly been exploited and sexualised from a young age, used by her entire family and ex, and according to her was kept on a cocktail of medication for years.
Antipsychotics in particular can cause brain damage.

I watched her film Crossroads yesterday (2002) - out of curiosity. She was so young, beautiful and talented. It was quite sad watching it knowing what life had in store for her.

Under what precedent? Not saying she wouldn't benefit from more care or supervision but if what you say is to be taken as correct, why isn't every adult in the US (or her state) with substantial MH issues or cognitive impairment living under a conservatorship? Im no expert but it simply isn't a long term tool that's routinely used except in cases of severe MH or cognitive impairment i.e. they have no insight into decisions affecting them.

At the time, the split from JT seemed to be the trigger, in hindsight though the split was perhaps a by product of her emerging mental illness (bipolar and the other 'biggies' usually become apparent during the late teens).
Its impossible to say with certainty, but she bears all the hallmarks of someone with severe bipolar. She writes long rambling paragraphs that are nonsensical to a disturbing degree, and then there's the highly sexualised dancing. She needs serious help but it seems that those who have tried to intervene (her Mum, her sons and her most recent husband) have come up against a brick wall. The online army that is the 'free britney' movement are ready to pounce en masse on anyone in her life who acknowledges the truth, ergo she will (sadly) be left to her fate.

It's like what you'd see if you went to a rough pub in a rough town and they had a jukebox.

I used to be a big fan. I can't find her IG account- everything is private.

The degenerative condition makes sense though but it does sound like she is taking a hefty dose of something.

The spinning around when she dances that you mention- that strikes a chord with me - somehow I have read about repetitive movements with a degenerative condition.

Her Ig is open isn’t it, not private

The dementia/degenerative neurological disease claim can't be true - she'd be dead by now. Particularly true of early onset forms of these conditions. Taking that into consideration - how bloody evil of anyone to claim that in court.

I must be in the minority here; I’ve watched the recent vids & honestly didn’t see anything amiss. She’s just clowning around and having a bit of fun dancing in skimpy outfits. Her hair looks really nice! I don’t think she’s taking herself as seriously as you all are tbh.

Don’t get the whole degenerative/MH assumptions either. She doesn’t look ill. Or “dead behind the eyes!” She looked quite happy in a few! And not at all drugged or out of it.

Yes she was able to perform to a high standard to sell out crowds for years in Vegas, so I don't think she actually had dementia, they just needed to tick one of the boxes on the conservatorship form and there wasn't a box for 'drug and alcohol addiction and out of control' because that's not a valid reason to impose a conservatorship, so 'dementia' was the one they went for.

I don't agree that she should be under a conservatorship. Kanye West is unwell and out of control and no one has tried to take total control of him. However, it is clear that she needs help and now no one can force her to get it so she needs to be the one to do it for herself.

Her insta isn't private.

Part of me thinks she’s living her best life and is happy and part of me finds it deeply concerning.

The main thing that I can’t get over is how bad of a dancer she is.

I always thought she was a good dancer but I’ve never seen such bad dancing as she does on her Instagram.

It's not private. I just had another look. It's really disturbing.
The same type of reel over and over. She looks manic and definitely on drugs or medication.
It's like watching a car crash. I shan't look again it's too sad.

I've found it by googling.
Aaahhh hell, I feel for her.
There's no one filming - her camera/phone is propped and the angle doesn't change,

If you look at her choreography through her life, she's been a pretty astounding performer. This doesn't even come close.

None of us know what's going on, but it's very clear that something isn't right.

If you've read Britney's book, she gives a huge amount of insight into this. She loves dancing and has spent literally her whole life dancing most of every day. It might be odd if I suddenly started doing sexy dancing all day, it's the opposite of odd for Britney as this has been her lifelong joy. She also says after many years - even before the conservatorship- of having little agency over how she moved and showed her body, she relishes being in control of that now.

She may still be experiencing mental illness and she may be using substances but that doesn't mean she has no capacity to make her own choices. A male star who experienced the issues she did would not have been subjected to the control she has been (Kanye is an excellent example).

As for needing to be protected from spending and giving away her money - it's Britney's money. If she wants to give every penny away, that's up to her.

@colouringindoors oh honestly, shut up. Your post has made me really cross. Imagine being so bloody flippant about something so awful.

Someone was walkjng in the background of one of her vids. A woman. Possibly a carer or housekeeper?

The dancing isn't the issue, the issue is her posting multiple videos over short time periods of her dancing in an increasingly deranged and chaotic way, the manic look in her eye that is painfully obvious to any of us who have ever worked with mentally ill people, and the deterioration in her physical appearance.

People who think she isn't seriously unwell right now are straight up in denial, book or no book.

I have a friend who is a psychiatrist we’ve had conversations about Britney he was a big fan as a teenager (like most boys were I think!) he has said he’s absolutely convinced she could have ASD and/or ADHD and this is why she’s spinning / dancing/ and that what people see as a decline in function is burnout not bipolar as is widely talked about as the possible issue. She was extremely talented at a young age it was probably just too much for her

I think , with politeness , he’s clearly mistaken, and has no idea of rhe wider context.

I mean, you are in the minority. And blind.

I don't think I am saying she's not unwell- I'm saying that the leap many posters make, straight into she should be deprived of her liberty, is scary.

If you're worked with people experiencing mental illness you'll know that first and foremost they have the right to make their own choices so long as they have capacity. The test for someone not to have capacity is high, in UK and US law and is not only about someone being ill.

Britney has the right to her freedom and choices even if these appear unwise or odd to other people.

Surely she's doing it herself, all her videos have the same camera angle, I assume she has a tripod or some kind of fixed camera

She clearly lives somewhere warm ro always has the heating on but she most often wears old fashioned boots that must be so hot for dancing, her dress sense seems to be stuck in her heyday

Gosh. Just had a look. She looks mentally unwell. Very disturbing to think people are laughing or disingenuously saying things like she’s ’living her best life’.

Obviously nobody can know unless they are qualified and assess her themselves but given he’s a professional I did consider his opinion as he knows what he’s talking about, he could be wrong but it’s one of those things we can all speculate over I suppose but my opinion is a non qualified one whereas his did make me think