Framing Britney Spears

Firstly, as anyone who has a seriously troubled person close to them knows, the United States has the highest thresholds for having someone declared mentally ill of any developed democracy on earth.

For good or for bad, or both, the US ACLU completely gutted protecting seriously mental ill people from themselves and protecting society from them, while they are in seriously ill stages. In Canada, the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Japan, S. Korea, Australia the thresholds to hold and evaluate people, and to mandate treatment are much much lower than in the US. Just google: ACLU and 5150. If you hear someone got mandatorily institutionalized or remanded for treatment in the US, where it is so difficult to force that, you can bet they are seriously ill. There are many families trying to get people with multiple severe mental illness, often dangerous mental illness, treated mandatorily that can't get that done due to, forgive the pun, insane, US case law. It actually affects our murder rate, and even our homelessness rate where we have severely schizophrenic persons on the streets due to courts and ACLU preventing treatment.

Lastly this documentary is itself extremely exploitive in that it is thoroughly one sided. Exactly what to these fan groups (and idiot NYTimes reporters) know about her actual mental health that the courts, her family, and court appointed medical and psychiatrics professionals don't know? NOTHING.