Celebrity Rehab
October 14, 2009 (120 views)
The celebrity rehab that I want to say right now is not a joke for your amusement. Just like other tabloids, I just want to give you and your children unprecedented access to what addiction and mental illness look like. Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse, Lindsay Lohan and over two dozen other music and movie stars gained headlines in 2007 for entering therapy and addiction recovery centers. If you’re laughing now at Britney Spears, will you be laughing in coming years when, heaven forbid, one of your lovely family members including your niece, uncle, sister, brother, even your mother or your own son or daughter loses control of his or her life? Will it be funny then? Celebrity is a human being, and everybody is entitled to empathy and kindness.
Going to mental, alcohol, and drug rehab should be a personal and private experience, so we should thank to those celebs who expose it openly, and we also thank to media which make television series such as Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, A&E’s Intervention, and HBO’s Rehab. Those insightful series that highlighting their steps in fighting the struggles that come along with addiction and mental health problems can give us great lessons to learn.














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