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.

  • HexaSnoot [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    "If you put a billionaire in a group setting, even with well-off middle-class people, they will not be able to relate to each other,” Gerber told me. They are not like the rest of us, these people; their lives and minds have been transformed by their fortunes.

    I did not finish the article because it reads as a tourism advertisement that overly romanticizes things. But this quote alone tells a striking short story of the terrible tragedy of being a billionare.