Anna Nicole and Social Anxiety Disorder
I believe that everyone deserves respect and anyone who can overcome Social Anxiety Disorder to become a celebrity and spokesperson deserves not only our respect, but our understanding. Who among us will cast the first stone at Anna Nicole, a woman who came from humble beginnings and tried to make a place for herself?
Now, information is coming out about Anna Nicole that doesn't zero in on the prescription drugs, the narcotics, the sex and the scandal, but the woman fighting to survive. Mental health professionals know that some people use street drugs or alcohol as a means of "self-medicating" to handle their demons. This would seem to be the case with Anna Nicole. Someone who worked closely with her over the years is talking about her social anxiety in the face of celebrity.
How awful it must have been to be so scared of the press and all the bad publicity that she wouldn't agree to have a physician brought into her room before her death. To die because you are afraid people will say horrible, untrue things about you doesn't seem right in any scenario that I can conjure up.
Neither does it seem right to call anyone "trailer trash." That's plain cruel. The term has been tossed around casually and used as a way of putting people down just because they weren't born into anything but poverty or came from a humble background. Who has the right to make such harsh judgments about people? Listen to who is doing all the talking and wonder where they came from. No one with any sensitivity or ounce of understanding would say something like that to anyone.
What if you were in the middle of all of this and you felt, as Anna Nicole once said, that everything she did resulted in someone suing her? Then you lose a child and still there is no peace from the relentless photographers? You are a prisoner in your own home? How do you go on? Drugs become more and more attractive. Consider the TV journalist who asked another, on camera, "Is Anna Nicole still dead?" Tasteless.
Remember about that first stone and before anyone tosses it, think about yourself. I don't think many of us could jump out of the way of this bus.
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Now, information is coming out about Anna Nicole that doesn't zero in on the prescription drugs, the narcotics, the sex and the scandal, but the woman fighting to survive. Mental health professionals know that some people use street drugs or alcohol as a means of "self-medicating" to handle their demons. This would seem to be the case with Anna Nicole. Someone who worked closely with her over the years is talking about her social anxiety in the face of celebrity.
How awful it must have been to be so scared of the press and all the bad publicity that she wouldn't agree to have a physician brought into her room before her death. To die because you are afraid people will say horrible, untrue things about you doesn't seem right in any scenario that I can conjure up.
Neither does it seem right to call anyone "trailer trash." That's plain cruel. The term has been tossed around casually and used as a way of putting people down just because they weren't born into anything but poverty or came from a humble background. Who has the right to make such harsh judgments about people? Listen to who is doing all the talking and wonder where they came from. No one with any sensitivity or ounce of understanding would say something like that to anyone.
What if you were in the middle of all of this and you felt, as Anna Nicole once said, that everything she did resulted in someone suing her? Then you lose a child and still there is no peace from the relentless photographers? You are a prisoner in your own home? How do you go on? Drugs become more and more attractive. Consider the TV journalist who asked another, on camera, "Is Anna Nicole still dead?" Tasteless.
Remember about that first stone and before anyone tosses it, think about yourself. I don't think many of us could jump out of the way of this bus.
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Technorati Tags: Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole Smith, social anxiety, celebrity, emotional health, addiction
6 Comments:
Thank you for two touching and compassionate articles on Anna Nicole Smith. You've restored my faith in humanity!
Thank you for your comment. I couldn't sit by and not say something about this awful circus that is unfolding around her death.
I feel sorry for Anna's baby, and hope that she will be raised by someone who will love and care for her, and not make her grow up to be "sexy" and skinny by underfeeding her. I do not feel sorry for Anna because she CHOSE the life she wanted, she chose the stress, she chose to self-medicate, she chose to play a fake role for the public. It was her choice to have many sexual parters. It was all HER choice. Give her credit for that at least, as messed up as it was. She wasn't a victim.
vAnna Nicole's situation shows what a monster she had to live with, in terms of her mental health. I see patients every day, surrounded by the best heatlh care money can buy but drowning. It is just sad, and I sure wish we had more answers.
I believe the latest information coming out about Anna Nicole's health has to be taken seriously. If it's true that she had lupus, it's understandable that she had a great burden in terms of pain, lack of energy and inability to function. The enormous stress in her life would only have made her lupus sx. that much worse.
I'm glad I read this article. As a wise person once said, who can "cast the first stone" with impunity. Even though I've always felt she lived the life she chose, the manner of her death is horrendous. I guess none of us were aware of her circumstances and only saw what the media circus chose.
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