Some people can't bear to be alone. Is that a big part of Paris'

problem? She can't enjoy being the center of attention if she is in a cell with no outside inputs (only one hour a day for tv, exercise, showering, etc), and she probably isn't used to being alone. Maybe she doesn't know herself well enough to handle it.

Just thinking online...

It's all a big stunt, people.

than anyone else, above the law

but she was living her life "out there", looking for attention, not purpose.

exercise and eat with the other female inmates. Sorry, no private baths or room service is provided for anyone in jail.

Just give her some Xanax and she'll be fine.

I have a fantasy: Paris does her sentence and comes out as an advocate for reform.

She couldn't be alone for a weekend because she went stir-crazy. This was in the Disco 80s era when people who had any kind of income flaunted it like crazy. Lots of cocktail parties, doing Bay Hill, driving to college football games, etc. She'd even throw big parties and send herself a bouquet of flowers and just leave off the card to keep everyone guessing. She loved drama and certainly loved the center of attention.

Now, I knew more than one person that was like that, but the difference was the money. The person who had the money definitely was quite capable of controlling her own "stage" and invited an audience whenever she felt like getting attention.

Rather than get on her for repeatedly breaking the law they are defending her and saying everyone is out to get them and they are being treated unfairly because they are rich.

These people need to take responsibility and they need to tell Paris to take responsibility and be remorseful. They need to tell her to grow and learn from this experience and to learn from her mistakes.

Her parents are doing all the wrong things.

without personal resources, conscience, coping abilities. She has a psychiatrist. I guess they aren't in the business of helping people grow up emotionally, even when the parents have failed and made her into a weakling.

"Hell is other people." -- Jean-Paul Sartre

I usually enjoy having a break with people in my life, though. My husband doesn't like being alone at all. I get alot more done on my own. Nothing wrong with being a hermit!

Being in that small cell in 23-1 lockdown can be absolutely mentally torturous. Unless you've been there, you can't possibly relate to how mentally damaging it can be. A day feels like a week. A week like a month. A month like a year.

Only the toughest can truly handle it while remaining unscathed. She is not the toughest amongst us.

I kinda feel for her, cause I know exactly what she's feeling right now. But she has to take responsibility for her actions and she'll be a better person for having gone through it afterwards.

more than a few days of it through my own internal resources. But yes, ITA about the overall situation. I'm jsut surprised that it has happened so soon.

One thing about the human mind that is amazing, is its ability to adapt to almost any situation. But that adaption to one's changed environment takes time. The first 3 days, prior to that acceptance and adaptation occuring, the mind can break down the most since it goes into a state of rapid anxiety in which it doesn't understand what's truly going on and longs to get back to normalcy. 23-1 lockdown is even worse, as the time drags like you couldn't believe. By the 4th or 5th day, human nature kicks in and depending on one's level of mental strength, the days go by a bit easier, though still tough. But the first 3 days can be the worst. I'm not surprised at all that someone like Paris, who has never been exposed to such hardship, would be so distraught after such little time. As much as we think we can, we can't really relate to how much harder this would be on her than an average person. We might say "oh well poor her, little sheltered rich girl", but that wouldn't change the fact that she is so far out of her element now that her brain is in a state of panic. I'm not surprised one bit.

Even though I think of myself as below average as far as needing to be with people, I have gotten rather sad when I have been by myself for more than a day. For someone whose life revolves around other people, it must be even more terrible.
I suppose that they felt that isolation was for her own safety, but it more cruel than the experience of many people in jail who get to socialize with other prisioners.

prisoners. Somehow balance that with the need for her security. I suspect that even with a news blackout in jail, the other women will know about her situation.

I'm sure she'll get all the attention she needs then.

problem.

It's not low self esteem. It's no self esteem, which is why she was a no-talent media whore all along.

She just used to be a well turned-out media whore. Now, she's a miserable media whore.

The whoring is the problem.

Try to imagine her going out on runways and demurely eyeing the photographers after all this.

I think the whoring is over. At a serious price.

And that's where her parents really screwed up: She's addicted to attention, and has no inner substance.

... but post your Paris shit someplace else. This is DU, not fucking ET.

So, anyway, Scientist chimed in on NPR today about melting in Arctic regions and the major point they wished to get across is that the progression of change is happening at a rate that FAR EXCEEDS their conservative estimates. In their words, "what I could tell you if we were talking over a beer is far more grave than what I can state over the airwaves". More info at:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10865977">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10865977