Poor thing. It is easy for the tabloid press to make fun and write sensational stories about these people, but what fails to reach the minds of those journalists is that people are not in rehab for no reason.
I've got unipolar depression. I have been proposed rehab several times but have refused each time as I wish to retain my independence. At some times though I wish there were options like a day center where you have a psychologist listening to you for a 5 or 6 hours, really taking time to help you get better. But this seems only possible when being in rehab, like sleeping and living in the rehab center for a while. Just going to the center in the morning and returning home in the evening seems impossible. Such a shame. Now it is paying over 50€ weekly for one hour sessions ; as good as my therapist is, one hour is just insufficient.
Also it's not exactly nice when your doctor tells you, in a way as if talking about a broken car, that you better learn to live with it because it's genetic anyway. I know very well he's right, but to say that in such a way ...
Hope Lindsay and all those others, famous or not, get better in rehab. Depression is an illness, a lot of people fail to realise that. It's not a choice. It's a serious illness. A secretive illness because nobody can see it from the outside. But just go through a day with all the questions "how are you?". Well, I started to answer more honestly, dropping the polite "I'm fine", and the reactions just show people don't grasp what serious depression means.
Not sure which other issues the folks in this rehab deal with, but whatever it may be (drug addiction, self mutilation, alcoholism, ...) ; nobody ends up there for no reason. I wish all of them a steady recovery.
