Miley partied with friends, five days after her 18th birthday getting giddily high on a bong, smoking LSD-like Salvia. Now, Salvia may not be an illegal substance in California, as it is in many other states, but that doesn't make her behavior any less self-destructive than if she was snorting cocaine.
Furthermore, Miley knew that she was being videotaped while she smoked and laughed like a hyena. What does that mean?
It means Billy Ray and Tish, that she desperately wants you to know and to act like her parents and tell her to stop, now!
She doesn't really want to be left unsupervised, partying in her house when you both are God knows where! And boy Billy Ray Cyrus has just pretty much fully admitted that he doesn't know what his daughter is up to -- he tweeted at 3:40 pm est Fri, Dec 10th, "Sorry guys. I had no idea. Just saw this stuff for the first time myself. I'm so sad. There is so much beyond my control right now."
"Her parents are apparently too busy arguing with each other to notice their daughter. And now Miley is ingesting something which will alter her reality. She's doing this because her reality is so painful that she wants to escape it," says psychotherapist Dr. Gilda Carle of drgilda.com.
"No matter how old you are -- you are affected deeply by your parents divorce. Many people like Miley aren't able to verbalize their grief so they act out," agrees psychologist Dr. Jeff Gardere, contributor to HealthGuru.com.
The unique problem that Miley has is that she's no ordinary teenager whose "acting out" is only noticed by her family and close friends. She knows that during the past year, every time she has misbehaved -- wearing see-thru tops in public, drinking underage -- she's set off a firestorm of attention in the press.
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It is like partying with cocaine? Give me a break. A lot of great minds have benefited from hallucinogens, e.g. Steve Jobs.
Here is an article and cartoon about the media sensationalism that got this "dangerous" drug criminalized:
http://suburra.com/blog/2009/10/06/how-freedom-dies-salvia-divinorum/
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too late now.
Yes, alcohol, cocaine, and other addictive substances frequently ruin lives, and every 18 year old needs a reality check concerning that--especially one who's as surrounded by that much money and partying. But it seems somewhat dramatic to assume that one brush with a short-acting, non-addictive substance places her squarely on the road to drug addiction and self destruction.
Do you know anybody who did some stupid stuff between the ages of 17 and 22 and ended up okay? Because that describes most of my friends to one degree or another...
And it is definetly not as destructive as cocaine. I've seen peoples lives ruined from cocaine, never from salvia. So saying they are just as destructive is pretty ridiculous.
Salvia is like short-duration, high strength marijuana, but less pleasant. If there were a legal, relatively cheap version of LSD that would let you trip for 10 minutes, redose as desired, and then go about the rest of your day, I know several people who would be all over that. As it is, very few people I've met feel compelled to try it more than once, and nobody's even heard of anyone becoming a regular user.
I repeat my question, Ms. Fuller:
If you've ever had a drink (or, gasp, more than two or three drinks in a night!), did you do it because your "reality was so painful that you wanted to escape it?"
Consciousness altering, especially among teenagers whose brains have developed the desire to experiment but are still cementing their understanding of consequences, is not an automatic sign of something terrible going on, and any psychiatrist who was willing to make that diagnosis on a teen they'd never met, as Dr. Gilda Carle is, should have their license immediately revoked.
She is just having herself a hearty bowl of Weedies.