Fame is a dangerous drug: A phenomenological glimpse of celebrity.
Rockwell, Donna, and Donna Rockwell. “The Psychological Mindset of Being Famous.” Unbound, 16 Sept. 2019, http://www.saybrook.edu/unbound/fame-is-a-dangerous-drug/.
This article is written by Donna Rockwell and is supported by a forum of the Saybrook University, in the article, The Psychological Mindset of Being Famous they inform and communicate how celebrities get to suffer from different depressive illnesses thanks to the fame that they acquire. The article discusses how substance abuse and alcoholism have a considerable relationship with mental illnesses such as manic episodes, depression, bipolar disorder, and bulimia, all these leading to understanding how the majority of celebrities feel unhappy and sad. The most exciting part of the article is when they refer to how these diseases are so easy to hide with a simple marketing campaign. Most celebrities are not happy and hide their feelings from the public and this is the author’s purpose, to demonstrate how celebrities are like any other person and get to suffer from diseases as a person of the common. On the other hand, the author of the article has the purpose of communicating to all her readers and people who are interested in these metal diseases that are often difficult to understand since they depend on many factors.
Why the Super-Successful Get Depressed
Walton, Alice G. “Why The Super-Successful Get Depressed.” Forbes, 26 Jan. 2015, http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2015/01/26/why-the-super-successful-get-depressed/#14be96a83850.
The article Why The Super-Successful Get Depressed, came out four years ago, and it was published by the Forbes magazine and written by Alice Walton, in the article, they discuss how the celebrities become successful but at same time lonely. This article discusses how people from one day to another begin to be surrounded by smiles, praises, fans, money, and facilities. A world that stretches at your feet like a red carpet where everything that can pass through your minds is available at the moment, just by asking for it. This article shows how financial debauchery also affects people psychologically since they do not even know in what to invest all the money they have. Moreover, one of the greatest insecurities that celebrities have is generated and is related to the fact that they always think that people only look for them for money or fame, and this makes them insecure and afraid to express their real feelings. Furthermore, the author’s purpose with this article is to communicate to the entire audience of Forbes magazine, people with interest in mental health, and money management.
Let’s Just Say That Fame Was like a Drug.
Simpson, Homer. “Let’s Just Say That Fame Was like a Drug. But What Was Even More like a Drug Was the Drugs. Pic.twitter.com/hmeGe0R2YN.” Twitter, Twitter, 27 July 2018, twitter.com/wisdom_of_homer/status/1022879481768357888.
This image was published on July 27, 2018, on twitter, but it is taken from an episode of The Simpsons, from the image can be infer how fame becomes like a drug to some celebrities and the side effects that it carries. This image shows how the producers and television channels want to show people with a perfect life, and the reality is that they are like any other person, who suffers and cries, what the image wants to show is how homer is being seen on television being happy, but behind the scenes, he is not pleased. This image makes evidence of how people look more at the perfect lives of celebrities without realizing that celebrities actually have it all but they are not happy because they do not have a person to guide them mentally and psychologically. Moreover, this image is aimed at all the people who see this television program.
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