Britney, Mental Illness and Lay Interpretation

Britney, Britney, Britney! In the last few months I have read articles claiming that Britney Spears is suffering from everything from drug addiction to multiple personalities. If you were to believe everything you read you would conclude that she is bi-polar, ADHD, psychotic, dissociative, narcissistic, depressed, suicidal, homicidal, alcoholic and a child abuser.

One thing I am sure of is that no one other than her own trained, professional, therapist can say for sure what is going on with her. And as far as I know, she doesn't have one.

It's curious how quickly lay people ascribe professional diagnosis to others. Everyone wants to believe that they are capable of diagnosing people with mental illness. If that were true it wouldn't take at least 7 years of college education and 2 years of a full time internship before therapists were able to do so.

I had a friend who, while divorcing her husband, began to tell everyone she knew that her husband had bi-polar disorder. He didn't. In fact he had never even been to a therapist and he didn't have the symptoms necessary for diagnosis. But she was sure of it, and so the rumor was spread around her small town.

Even insurance company employees want to believe that they have the ability to correctly diagnose patients they have only met on paper. I know a woman who has suffered with bi-polar disorder and psychosis for most of her adult life. She has a strong family history of the illness and all of the troubling symptoms that keep her from functioning in life. And yet her attempts to be granted Social Security Insurance have been denied over and over again. Her neighbor is a drug addict who was approved for Social Security the first time he applied - stating that his drug addiction kept him from keeping a job.

Mental Illness is a complex and often perplexing state of mind. Sometimes Its symptoms are easily noticed, more often they are not. Britney may be suffering from some form of mental illness, but unless and until the public is made aware of a specific illness it is senseless to speculate and cruel to arbitrarily assign a diagnosis.

Britney, Mental Illness and Lay Interpretation

Britney, Britney, Britney! In the last few months I have read articles claiming that Britney Spears is suffering from everything from drug addiction to multiple personalities. If you were to believe everything you read you would conclude that she is bi-polar, ADHD, psychotic, dissociative, narcissistic, depressed, suicidal, homicidal, alcoholic and a child abuser.

One thing I am sure of is that no one other than her own trained, professional, therapist can say for sure what is going on with her. And as far as I know, she doesn't have one.

It's curious how quickly lay people ascribe professional diagnosis to others. Everyone wants to believe that they are capable of diagnosing people with mental illness. If that were true it wouldn't take at least 7 years of college education and 2 years of a full time internship before therapists were able to do so.

I had a friend who, while divorcing her husband, began to tell everyone she knew that her husband had bi-polar disorder. He didn't. In fact he had never even been to a therapist and he didn't have the symptoms necessary for diagnosis. But she was sure of it, and so the rumor was spread around her small town.

Even insurance company employees want to believe that they have the ability to correctly diagnose patients they have only met on paper. I know a woman who has suffered with bi-polar disorder and psychosis for most of her adult life. She has a strong family history of the illness and all of the troubling symptoms that keep her from functioning in life. And yet her attempts to be granted Social Security Insurance have been denied over and over again. Her neighbor is a drug addict who was approved for Social Security the first time he applied - stating that his drug addiction kept him from keeping a job.

Mental Illness is a complex and often perplexing state of mind. Sometimes Its symptoms are easily noticed, more often they are not. Britney may be suffering from some form of mental illness, but unless and until the public is made aware of a specific illness it is senseless to speculate and cruel to arbitrarily assign a diagnosis.

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Realizing Goals and New Year's Resolutions

What's Your New Year's Resolution?

Every January 1st millions of people make a lighthearted decision to somehow change their life for the better. You may decide to loose weight or to spend more quality time with your family. Whatever it is, for most of us, by January 15th we have lost our momentum and our resolution becomes nothing more than a wish.

Keeping up with a New Year's Resolution requires more than desire. It takes a prepared mindset that allows you to stay focused and committed to the daily behaviors required to make a permanent change. The desire to change is a good step, but to actually make that change much more is needed.

Here are the necessary requirements to making your resolutions a reality.

1. Be specific. Make your goal something tangible. Saying that you are going to do better at work is too general, there isn't anything tangible to work toward.

2. Break your goal down into measurable steps that can be accomplished along the way so that you can realize the perks that come with achievement every day.

3. Give yourself a deadline. This will help to keep you on task and will prevent you from expecting to make it happen too quickly or to put it off indefinitely.

4. Decide how determined you are to make your goal a reality. Ask yourself if you are willing to do all that it takes for as long as it takes - even when you are tempted to loose focus. Are you doing this for the right reasons? Goals to change your life for someone else rarely work.

5. Be accountable to someone else. Goals desired in secrecy are too easily left on the wayside when the going gets tough. Enlist a partner with whom you can share your progress and struggles.

6. Make your resolution simple. Make it something that is doable, something that you know in your very core that you will achieve. Otherwise you fall prey to feelings of failure; and that is no way to start off your new year.

Realizing Goals and New Year's Resolutions

What's Your New Year's Resolution?

Every January 1st millions of people make a lighthearted decision to somehow change their life for the better. You may decide to loose weight or to spend more quality time with your family. Whatever it is, for most of us, by January 15th we have lost our momentum and our resolution becomes nothing more than a wish.

Keeping up with a New Year's Resolution requires more than desire. It takes a prepared mindset that allows you to stay focused and committed to the daily behaviors required to make a permanent change. The desire to change is a good step, but to actually make that change much more is needed.

Here are the necessary requirements to making your resolutions a reality.

1. Be specific. Make your goal something tangible. Saying that you are going to do better at work is too general, there isn't anything tangible to work toward.

2. Break your goal down into measurable steps that can be accomplished along the way so that you can realize the perks that come with achievement every day.

3. Give yourself a deadline. This will help to keep you on task and will prevent you from expecting to make it happen too quickly or to put it off indefinitely.

4. Decide how determined you are to make your goal a reality. Ask yourself if you are willing to do all that it takes for as long as it takes - even when you are tempted to loose focus. Are you doing this for the right reasons? Goals to change your life for someone else rarely work.

5. Be accountable to someone else. Goals desired in secrecy are too easily left on the wayside when the going gets tough. Enlist a partner with whom you can share your progress and struggles.

6. Make your resolution simple. Make it something that is doable, something that you know in your very core that you will achieve. Otherwise you fall prey to feelings of failure; and that is no way to start off your new year.

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