Midnight Celebrity: Britney Spears Needs Help

Britney Spears was thrust into the spotlight in spectacular fashion last week, after she was hospitalized on Thursday night, leaving the world wondering: "What's next for Britney Spears?"

Two of the industry's most respected mental health clinicians, doctors Drew Pinsky and Keith Ablow, have weighed in on what Britney needs to do to recover from a series of breakdowns.

"I fear that there could be a really bad outcome here," Ablow told Extra. "She needs a comprehensive plan and she needs confidentiality. She needs to be treated like a person, not a star."

For Ablow, the Britney buck stops with her mom Lynne, who he says must be a part of any recovery program.

"Here's the bottom line," he said. "When your 16-year-old daughter [Jamie Lynn Spears] is pregnant, and your older daughter is in a psychiatric facility and your grandkids don't seem well cared for, but you look pretty put-together, generally I start to look to the put-together person and say, 'I'd like to talk to you.'"

Ablow believes the troubled Toxic singer should be weary of being pushed into the spotlight even more.

"That should be like a looking glass for her," he said. "She should say, 'Have they ever been purely interested in me as a child, as a young woman, as a developing person, or have I always been a commodity to them in part?' That could be the beginning of a walk toward the truth for her."

Pinsky adds that Brit needs to do something.. before it's too late.

He said: "If she doesn't begin to turn it around in the next two to four weeks, I would say you're going to see her on a ventilator in an ICU somewhere.

"It looks as if we're watching an Anna Nicole Smith type case revolve in real time."

Anna Nicole Smith was found unresponsive in a hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood on February 8, 2007, she later died, of what pathologists said was "combined drug intoxication" with the sleeping medication chloral hydrate as the "major component.

So, can the troubled 26-year-old - who recently lost custody of her two sons to estranged husband Kevin Federline be saved??

"Even with intensive treatment in a hospital environment, followed by, say, a year of residential treatment - which is the minimum of what she needs - her chances are sort of 50/50 of a sustained recovery," Pinsky added. "Without treatment, her survival is really in question."

By Owen Williams, Jan 09 2008 © Copyright 2008 - Showbiz Spy

Category Britney Spears, Showbiz Gossip

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