I am not famous and this is not a crisis. I’ve simply wondered about this for years. Especially after hearing one of my favorite celebrities, who really helped me with their art, had gone into psychosis and left the public eye for months. I don’t care where this person specifically went, I’m curious what sort of facilities and resources the mega rich, mega famous generally turn to. How could one safely run a facility for them in a way where they can still be around the company of other patients?

I don’t think they can go to a normal one where the lower class could out all their shit to the celebrity gossip industry for cash. You can’t possibly relax when every other patient could destroy your life by airing your private issues. Maybe for the rest of their lives for petty reasons. Like them just trying to seem more interesting to other people by talking about having seen/talked to a famous person.

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    I couldn’t say for psychosis type stuff but I would guess at a private house somewhere with a private doctor, or somewhere with a large grounds with the same facilities. I think that’s more or less how it is with rehab - somewhere where everyone pays more and signs an NDA.

    For dementia though I do know a care home near me has a lot of old famous actors with dementia and such in it, and that’s just it really. You pay a bit extra for it, but mainly it’s that friends in the industry would point to it as the right place to go, and at this point its just the self fulfilling tradition for that facility. Celebrity A goes because Celebrity B and C are there, then B and C die but Celebrity D and E join because celebrity A is there. And so on.