Pete Davidson checks into rehab
Again, Bravo for a celebrity going public about heading for mental health treatment. Pete Davidson did so just recently. Not his first time but hopefully his last.
His admission is somewhat of a double-edged sword, however. What message gets sent to people about going to rehab when celebrities go? Our hope is of course that these admissions by famous people help to destigmatize mental health treatment.
But what happens when they fail to make the changes necessary to achieve lasting results and well-being? Does treatment become the plaything of rich people who don’t really need or maybe don’t want help except to clean up for a while. What message gets sent here? We are always looking for celebrities to be role models. What if our role models give us hard messages or mis-messages about important health issues. Remember Joe Rogan and vaccines? When celebrities fail to “get well and stay well” what are we to conclude from that? Is this really helping the movement for increasing access and acceptance of the benefits of mental health treatment?
