Quote: (10-12-2014 02:14 PM)Gnu Wrote:
Quote: (10-12-2014 01:43 PM)Truckn Wrote:This is not surprising if in fact she has schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is notorious for turning perfectly normal, bright, well-adjusted young adults into raving, homeless derelicts, often within the course of only a year or two. It's heart-breaking, in many cases.
it's so odd. She was one of dozens that came out of the Disney television channel merry go round of childhood stars......(I am including Nickelodeon, ABC family, whatever else is Disney owned).
But she was one of their biggest stars. Bigger than Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and a few others.
And only rivaled in popularity (at their time at Disney) by Keenan Thompson (SNL), Miley Cyrus, Raven Symone, and Melissa Joan Hart (Clarrissa Explains it All), in terms of having their own show, and exposure on the network.
And of all of the stars that came from the Disney networks, she was by far, the most mature and sober-eyed about her success.
She eshewed all lot of the Hollywood trappings that befall other stars of that age. Drugs. Expectations about her future sucess. Lesser projects. Being typecast. Being a spokesperson schill.
And she seemed to recognize the fraility of her stardom and what other avenues she migh follow.
And then, BAM. Just like that. She went crazy.
It would be a fascinating turn of events if it actually was revealed that she did have a microchip in her brain.
I agree with the above comment.
Watching what's happening reminds of reading about Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd, Skip Spence of Moby Grape, and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. This sounds like out-and-out mental illness -- perhaps brought on by the stresses of stardom and drugs, but still something worse than eccentricity or acting out.