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Lindsay Lohan Enters Rehab (pg. 2)
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| Frenchie |
[Pretend I care message here]
-pfft, most child stars are in rehab by the time they turn 20 |
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| Theresa |
Kinda makes you wonder if the fame and the money are really a bad thing for people in the end.
I dunno.. everyone seems to glorify the star life, thinking they must have magnificant lollipop storyland lives, meanwhile, they are laying on the bathroom floor in their own puke seeing demons fighting koala bears on their ceilings. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Theresa
Kinda makes you wonder if the fame and the money are really a bad thing for people in the end.
I dunno.. everyone seems to glorify the star life, thinking they must have magnificant lollipop storyland lives, meanwhile, they are laying on the bathroom floor in their own puke seeing demons fighting koala bears on their ceilings. |
You don't have to be rich and famous to have a substance addiction. It's only a "bad thing" because the whole world gets to see you go through all the stages of life's bull that most people go through without everyone else knowing about it.
In the end, I think it only proves that celebrities are not necessarily good role models merely for their status and should be judged by the same criteria by which we would judge any other person because, at the root of it all, they are just as susceptible to the ups and downs of life as anyone else is. |
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| Theresa |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
You don't have to be rich and famous to have a substance addiction. It's only a "bad thing" because the whole world gets to see you go through all the stages of life's bull that most people go through without everyone else knowing about it.
In the end, I think it only proves that celebrities are not necessarily good role models merely for their status and should be judged by the same criteria by which we would judge any other person because, at the root of it all, they are just as susceptible to the ups and downs of life as anyone else is. |
I think that celebrities are more likely to become involved with the lifestyle however, mainly because they have the financial means to sustain it. How many star deaths are caused by drugs? Or suicide due to drugs?
I dunno, maybe it's just me, but the lifestyle of a lot of celebrities seems to be parallel to the lifestyle of a person who is suffering from some sort of substance abuse. |
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| Arbiter |
| Nobody likes a quitter. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Theresa
I think that celebrities are more likely to become involved with the lifestyle however, mainly because they have the financial means to sustain it. How many star deaths are caused by drugs? Or suicide due to drugs?
I dunno, maybe it's just me, but the lifestyle of a lot of celebrities seems to be parallel to the lifestyle of a person who is suffering from some sort of substance abuse. |
You're definitely right about them having the financial backing to support a considerable habit, I do not see this feasibly affecting too many people out there. Usually, people who want to do a lot of drugs work hard and then blow all their money on their habit - I mean, yeah, a $2,000 a day habit is quite difficult to maintain for most career positions actually even available, but then people resort to theft or other means of getting what they need.
Though it is always quite sad when somebody dies of drug-related issues, even celebrities, I think the rate of people dying due to drug-related issues in non-celebrities far exceeds that of famous people. It's just that everybody likes to hear about the "glamourous" people having drugg issues in their life, so the press reports (and sometimes even completely fabricates) stories of celebrities with drug issues - so it's easy to say that celebrities easily succumb to the lure of narcotics, but what, outside of the tabloids, would suggest that they are any more susceptible to that lure than any other person? I think most people suffer through an episode or two with drugs in their lives - we just hear about it more often when celebrities do.
...or is it that the "celebrity lifestyle" is imitated, consciously or unconsciously, within our society anymore? I wonder if there has honestly been a culture shift where people do what they think that the "mold" (one that has undoubtedly been affected by celebrity lifestyle as per the media) tells them that it's completely and utterly normal to do drugs. I wouldn't put this sort of acceptant and complacent hysteria past any culture with an aristocracy such as our own... |
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| infinity HiGH |
| For what? Being tired? |
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| Danny Ocean |
| quote: | Originally posted by Theresa
I think that celebrities are more likely to become involved with the lifestyle however, mainly because they have the financial means to sustain it. How many star deaths are caused by drugs? Or suicide due to drugs?
I dunno, maybe it's just me, but the lifestyle of a lot of celebrities seems to be parallel to the lifestyle of a person who is suffering from some sort of substance abuse. |
not really, i have the financial means to sustain a heroin addiction but you won't hear it in the news. |
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| Frenchie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Danny Ocean
not really, i have the financial means to sustain a heroin addiction but you won't hear it in the news. |
I better not hear about it:whip: |
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| Danny Ocean |
| quote: | Originally posted by Frenchie
I better not hear about it:whip: |
no sweetie, just making a point! |
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| jdat |
| quote: | Originally posted by Danny Ocean
not really, i have the financial means to sustain a heroin addiction but you won't hear it in the news. |
true celebrity has nothing to do with an addiction.
Yes it can facilitate access to a whole set of bad things but this can also be done by anyone who becomes an addict or has money to spear. |
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| Xenocreator_PG_ |
| who the is Lindsy Lowhand?? |
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