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Another Britney / Lindsay...Amanda Bynes Plea For Help

by MyLuckyYear
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I remember watching her in movies and tv as this cute adorable little thing. Never though years there would be this kind of transformation. People are saying this is mental health problems. What do you'll think? I feel really sorry for her. Looks like another Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan break down. Worse than the new Miley twerking even. Just google her crazy tweets and self pics!
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  • Profile picture of the author alistair
    If these self obsessed "celebrities" want to self destruct then let them get on with it because I'm not going to feel sorry for them.

    Edit: If I'm jumping to the wrong conclusions about her then I apologise but I don't really waste my time on celebrity news and stuff.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Amanda has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. The judge has ok'd for up to a year more in the psychiatric facility that she's in, although it may or may not be necessary. She will live with her parents when she gets out. She's a sick chick and I'm glad she's finally getting the help she needs.
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    Often, serious mental health issues don't show up until young adult age. The daughter of friends of ours was diagnosed with bipolar disease at age 20.

    The daughter of another friend was in her early 20s when diagnosed as bipolar. Unfortunately she committed suicide at age 32. She was drop-dead gorgeous, married to a man who adored her, and they had 3 lovely children who loved their mommie. That didn't help. She wouldn't stay on her medicine.

    There was a fellow who lived in the neighborhood where my business is located. He was brilliant. Graduated top of his high school class. Was valedictorian. During his 1st or 2nd year at college, his schizophrenia took hold, and it was downhill from there for him. He died a couple years ago. Drank himself to death.

    There is a video at TED talks dot come, in which the speaker gives a presentation about her schizophrenia. She is an attorney. Is successful. But she deals with her disease. I'll see if I can find a link.

    Elyn Saks: A tale of mental illness -- from the inside | Video on TED.com

    Maybe 25 years ago, psychiatrist Daniel Amen began doing brain scans of patients, and was able to prove all mental illness is physiological. It has to do with brain function and chemistry. He uses a SPECT scanner (Single Proton Emission Computerized Tomography) to study a patient's brain.

    Here's his website: Amen Clinics | Brain Imaging, Therapy, and Treatments

    It sounds like Amanda is in a safer place right now.

    :-Don
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    • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
      Originally Posted by Don Schenk View Post

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      Maybe 25 years ago, psychiatrist Daniel Amen began doing brain scans of patients, and was able to prove all mental illness is physiological. It has to do with brain function and chemistry. He uses a SPECT scanner (Single Proton Emission Computerized Tomography) to study a patient's brain.

      Here's his website: Amen Clinics | Brain Imaging, Therapy, and Treatments

      It sounds like Amanda is in a safer place right now.

      :-Don
      I wonder what my brain scan would reveal.

      You seem to acquired great awareness and compassion about others. Where does that come from?

      Many years ago friend of mine with schizophrenia hung himself. I couldn't bring myself to attend an art gallery showing of his paintings after that, though it was to celebrate his life. His problems actually got much worse after receiving psychiatric help. Not all people respond equally to medication.
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      • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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        Originally Posted by thunderbird View Post

        I wonder what my brain scan would reveal.

        You seem to acquired great awareness and compassion about others. Where does that come from?

        Many years ago friend of mine with schizophrenia hung himself. I couldn't bring myself to attend an art gallery showing of his paintings after that, though it was to celebrate his life. His problems actually got much worse after receiving psychiatric help. Not all people respond equally to medication.
        Schizophrenia is one of the tougher conditions to treat and stabilize. Many schizophenics end up jailed rather than treated. I had a friend who was schizophrenic. A lot of the time, she would be fairly normal. Then, out of the blue, she would relay a conversation that she just had with the Beatles and how angry it made her and how she intended to get even. Then she'd run off into the night and be picked up by the police for doing something bizarre (like Amanda Bynes setting a fire in someone's driveway). Replace that with conversations with God and others and that was how her life was. These episodes were generally followed by not seeing her around for months due to confinement in a mental institution and then followed by her showing up again and looking pretty good for awhile ... until the next episode.
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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          Part of the problem is getting them to take their medication reliably and regularly.

          Some are perfectly alright and apparently entirely normal for as long as they take it, but feel so well/normal that they "decide to cut down" or "decide to stop", typically with disastrous results.

          Acute schizophrenia is quite commonly diagnosed in late teens and/or early twenties.
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          • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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            Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

            Part of the problem is getting them to take their medication reliably and regularly.

            Some are perfectly alright and apparently entirely normal for as long as they take it, but feel so well/normal that they "decide to cut down" or "decide to stop", typically with disastrous results.

            Acute schizophrenia is quite commonly diagnosed in late teens and/or early twenties.
            When my friend was on her meds, she was the most stable, but the meds caused enormous weight gain and acute nausea, so often, as soon as she felt like she had a grip on reality, she'd stop taking them with predictable results.
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