After spending several weeks in a psychiatric hospital for “emotional distress”, Britney Spears returned home Thursday, April 25. According to those close to her, the singer now intends to recharge her batteries with her sons and her boyfriend and try to relax.
Britney Spears is doing better. The 37-year-old pop star returned home Thursday, April 25, after spending several weeks in a psychiatric hospital for “emotional distress”. “Britney is back home and very happy about it,” a source told The Daily Mail. magazine People, adding that the singer would spend her weekend with her boys, Sam Preston, 13 and Jayden James, 12, and her boyfriend, Sam Asghari. “She’s going to try to keep her stress level as low as possible and just relax,” another person shared. to the PageSix website.
It all started in January when Vegas resident Britney announced that she would be taking an indefinite break from work to care for her ailing father and focus on her family. “It’s important to always put your family first…and that’s the decision I had to make,” she tweeted. “A few months ago, my father was hospitalized and almost died. We are all so happy that he got away with it but he still has a long way to go,” she says.
This early retirement does not seem to be working for her since on April 4, the young woman goes to a psychiatric hospital to be interned there for “emotional distress”. “Love to take care of yourself, your mind, your body, your soul,” she posted the same day on Instagram, accompanying her photo with the caption: “We all need a little time to self”.
“Don’t believe everything you read and hear”
Last post before several weeks of silence, which worries his fans to the point of convincing themselves that the star was interned against his will and launching a #FreeBritney movement on social networks. “Britney just needs to take care of her. Her father’s illness has affected her a lot (…) He almost died and had to be operated on again a few weeks ago. He is not well. They are very close and that’s a lot. Nothing dramatic happened to her, she just realized that she needed to take time for herself”, then explains one of her relatives to the media in the hope of calming the situation. situation.
In vain. Many netizens accuse the interpreter’s family of Baby One More Time of forcibly locking her up because she refused to take her medication for depression and bipolar disorder. Exasperated, her little sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, gets angry on Instagram: “Who was there ten years ago?? I was there long before everyone else, and I will be here long after. I love my sister from all my heart. So anyone who says otherwise can fuck off with their comments about something they don’t even understand. Don’t look for me or my loved ones,” she wrote.
A few days later, Britney herself stepped up to put the rumors to rest once and for all. “Wow! There are rumours, death threats addressed to my family and my team (…) crazy things have been said. Don’t believe everything you read and hear. (…) My situation is unique, but I promise to do the best right now. You may not know this but I’m strong and I stand up for what I want! I’m just trying to take a moment for myself, but everything what happened made things more difficult,” she explains in a video on an Instagram account. And to conclude, on a softer note: “Your love and dedication is incredible but what I need now is a little privacy to manage all the obstacles in my way. If you could do that, I’ll be forever grateful to you. I love you.”
Britney reportedly struggled to adjust to her new medications
This is not the first time that Britney Spears has been talked about for her psychological problems. In 2007, the young woman shocked the entire planet by shaving her head. Depressed and addicted to drugs, she worried her family terribly, who ended up committing her, really forcibly this time, after a particularly violent altercation with her companion at the time and father of her children, Kevin Federline. She had to undergo an evaluation of her mental state there before leaving after a few days.
Britney seems to have since recovered, but she is still on antidepressants and continues to undergo therapy. However, according to the TMZ website, the medications she had been taking for several years ended up losing their effectiveness. The doctors therefore had to readjust his treatment and adapting to this new drug cocktail proved to be more difficult than expected.
But if Britney Spears’ depression is particularly publicized, the singer is obviously not the only one to suffer from this disease which affects one in five people in France, with a prevalence twice as high among women.
In September 2018, Inserm and the Haute Autorité de Santé published a characteristic list of nine symptoms specific to depression. Continuous sadness, perpetual fatigue, loss of interest in activities that we were passionate about, recurrent dark thoughts, troubled relationship with food, psychomotor retardation, physical disorders (loss of libido, stomach ache), difficulty concentrating and permanent guilt are unmistakable signs. If you recognize yourself in at least two of the first three symptoms defined above, immediately make an appointment with a doctor who will be able to make an accurate diagnosis.
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