Celebrities stupid? Maybe not!
What is the connection between celebrity and stupidity when it comes to alcohol?
The recent Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton, and the Nicole Ritchie news explosion covering their bad decisions dealing with cars and alcohol are getting old and predictable. I know that young people have an under formed frontal cortex before the age of twenty-five but these women have agents and assistants that are highly paid to help them think. Even the application of a foolproof alcohol monitoring ankle bracelet did not have any sway over Lohan’s choice to drink/drug and drive dangerously only a few days post rehab. This is proof that the brain can definitely have a disconnect between the frontal cortex (or decision making brain) and the pleasure seeking/behavioral area of the brain. Just like the sensation you get when the doctor hits your knee with a hammer, you see it respond with movement but your brain never got a vote on what the response would be. So if alcohol abuse and dependency worsens the disconnect why would we expect anything but behavior that qualifies as stupid.
August 13th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
I was watching some mindless show on E TV last night about celebrities going through rehab and their relapses. I think that it is very difficult for them to grasp the fact that they can’t control something. After all, they are rich, famous, beautiful and get anything they want. They just cant get that they are alcoholics and addicts and can’ t be helped until they can grasp the fact that something is bigger and more important than them.
August 14th, 2007 at 11:38 am
It sounds like a God complex that 12 step can’t break. how do you surrender to yourself
October 16th, 2007 at 12:49 am
I think these women all started their professional careers all to young and b/c of this they where also forced to grow up way too soon. Just b/c these women are celebrities does not mean that their not human like the rest of us. The media makes things even worse for them. I personally think that maybe just maybe if the media would stop bashing them so badly that maybe they wouldn’t relapse or at least not so soon after getting out of rehab.
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