Demons on Display
Toxic Celebrity Culture from Britney Spears to Simone Biles
This article is a “reboot”—the newsletter was born out of the work Carlene MacMillan, M.D.1, and I did on Clubhouse back in the day. This was a good article then, and it seems relevant again now, so I’m relaunching to the world. She is busy doing super corporate important things at her company and at AACAP, CTMSS, and APA so she has less time for this newsletter foolishness. That having been said, she wrote a mean article then, and might again. Who knows! If I get enough subscribers, I can peer pressure her. What follows, with a personal post script, is her original article:
In addition to raising concerns about how to help vulnerable individuals under conservatorships, the #FreeBritney movement also pulls back the curtain on how we hold celebrities to impossible ideals and how hard it can be for them to lead happy lives despite seemingly limitless fame and fortune. This past week the world watched as American Gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from the team competition at the Olympic…