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In the past, there have been plenty of stars who cracked under pressure and had difficulty dealing with the spotlight. But mental/emotional problems weren't always openly talked about, and if they chose to self-medicate, there were times when there was no public discourse, no education about that sort of thing. And the industries that controlled them had a much tighter grip on what stories got out. Information didn't spread as quickly and didn't get very far if certain powerful people just picked up a phone. Judy Garland had multiple breakdowns and moments of self-harm over several years in the late 40s but all audiences saw was this smiling, singing, dancing superstar on movie screens. It wasn't until she tried cutting her throat one day and the right person happened to leak it to the right reporter that the story blew wide open.
Often the ones who seem to have anxiety or "breakdowns" or whatever you want to call it, are the ones who came up in the industry at a young age, who had their childhoods extremely managed, who never learned how to deal with adult professional and personal adversity on their own. And today, when someone can go on a TV talent competition or YouTube, the steps to stardom have become even fewer. You don't have to necessarily go through ****** gigs and learn how to hear people booing you, to look at a near-empty room and perform to half-hearted applause, experience label rejection over and over for years, etc.
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