What the film is surprisingly lacking in, though, is anything beyond passing mentions of her bulimia. That segment transitions into an interview with someone working in the studio while Amy was recording Back to Black. They recount that the very tiny singer ate a large meal, disappeared for 45 minutes, and returned with smeared makeup.
This, the interviewee notes, was a point when she and others involved in the recording process realized something was really wrong. Then the film transitions away from any serious discussion of her eating disorder and never returns, other than in passing mentions perhaps three or four times.
The disease is always treated as incidental and almost, to my perception, as something as permanent and untreatable as late-stage cancer, with an air of nothing can be done.
Eating disorders, for the most part, are a highly contained and easily managed means of utterly ruining oneself. A person with bulimia nervosa can carry on bingeing and purging while otherwise maintaining a high level of functionality. The same goes of those with anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and purging disorder.
Bingeing, purging, or starving are highly unlikely to put you into debt, and leave you unintoxicated and able to carry out the tasks of a job, and tend to the demands of a relationship and daily chores of life.
These facts make it very easy for the friends, family, and colleagues of those with an eating disorder to overlook the disease, as the footage and interviews we see in Amy remind us. When Amy suffers and survives her first overdose, a close acquaintance summarizes the urgings of a doctor and those around her to explain that a "petite" young girl cannot maintain the level of drug and alcohol abuse that led to the overdose.
Early videos of her performing for industry folks as an or year-old show her with broad shoulders, a heavy chest, full thighs and torso—generally an "average-sized" woman with a solid frame. This "petiteness" was not natural; it was fought for. But to anyone other than Amy, it was easy to overlook and intimidating to address. It's a real dark, dark issue. Multiple factors are involved, such as genetics and metabolism; psychological issues—such as control, coping skills, trauma, personality factors, family issues; and social issues, such as a culture that promotes thinness and media that transmits this message.
Winehouse was put on antidepressants early in life and, in one interview shown in the film, spoke with a depth of understanding on the subject of depression as a disease. She said that as a child, "I don't think I knew what depression was.
I know I felt funny sometimes and I was different. There's a lot of people that suffer depression that don't have an outlet. They may also wish to excuse themselves for any neglect they may have committed against somebody in a similar situation.
Maybe they made fun of Winehouse after she lost teeth or, even worse, did nothing to help a friend in a similar case. Unfortunately, millions of people do every day. There are millions of people around the world who have experienced that kind of abuse disorders and who have survived.
A vast majority of them needed dual diagnosis to recover. Dual diagnosis is a powerful way for people with mental health disorders to recover from drug dependency. It breaks the tight bonds that these co-occurring disorders have on each other and shakes people free from their influence.
Dual diagnosis is particularly crucial for bipolar disorder because it is explicitly designed to teach people how to understand their behaviors fully. For example, if Winehouse had somehow been able to get into this kind of rehab treatment, she could have learned how to cope with her feelings of insecurity in a more constructive way.
Methods such as meditation and positive reinforcement could have built a better personal image that would help mitigate the damage those feelings were having on her everyday life. Just as importantly, it could have helped her to better understand her early symptoms of mood swings and other bipolar problems. For example, Winehouse could have learned how to spot a downward turn in her emotions and to prepare herself accordingly.
Instead of turning to alcohol, benzos, pills, or cocaine, she could have asked friends to support her through a rough period. Winehouse could have even learned behavior-modification techniques to move her away from these destructive behaviors and to more positive ones.
For example, she could have learned to do what Fiona Apple claims she does when she feels sad or depressed. When these feelings hit Apple, she claims that she sits down at the piano and starts writing music. Though Apple is known to drink and has been caught using marijuana, her drug use has never spiraled to the level that it did with Winehouse.
Musically expressing herself was not a problem for Amy, and learning to convert her negative impulses into creatives one more regularly could have helped her get over all of her dependencies. For example, Winehouse could have received replacement medications to manage the potency of her many dependencies. Then, she could have stayed in a residential center, continued to get mental-health help, and met a strong support group who could have helped her overcome her addictions positively and productively.
That said, there is an excellent chance that high-quality care could have gotten Winehouse back out of the black and into the light. Talking to a dual diagnosis expert is a significant first step because they can diagnose you with dependency on heroin, pills, or even medicines like Xanax.
They can then find out if you have any mental-health issues contributing to this dependency. With their skilled and caring help, you can walk the sometimes narrow path of dependency recovery and become a happier and drug-free individual. A residential visit is particularly beneficial because you will be removed from the relapse triggers that make it so hard for you to quit. If Winehouse could have gotten dual diagnosis and learned how to stay away from the people and places that compelled her to use, she could be on a world tour right now.
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The crash came at the pinnacle of her career. Amy was married to Black Fielder-Civil from to , and couldn't quite detach herself from him. He allegedly introduced her to hard drugs and apparently prevented her from going to rehab. By the end of , Amy Winehouse had become the best-paid women in show business in the UK.
In , she received five Grammys. But due to her drug problems, she was denied a visa to the US and had to make a video appearance instead. By , she cut back on live shows. It became increasingly evident that Amy Winehouse was the victim of her own self-destruction. She suffered from bulimia as a result of her drug addiction and became very frail. Nevertheless, she broke worldwide records with her album sales in and Her father was her constant companion.
By that time, she hardly made any public appearances. In July , she was called to court in London after being accused of attacking a female fan. In January , Amy was once again accused of physical aggression - this time against a theater manager. She confessed in a court in the English town of Milton Keynes.
In , Amy planned a comeback and gave a successful performace in Brazil in January of that year. There, she premiered five new songs, which she'd planned for her third album. The start of her European tour ended in a disaster: She turned up so drunk to her concert in Belgrade that she could hardly stand up.
On July 25, , Amy Winehouse was found dead in her apartment. The year-old talent was lost to chemical addiction and the pressures of the music business. Amy's father, Mitch Winehouse, erected a memorial to her in Camden Town in fall He provided Asif Kapadia with much of the footage, but criticized the completed documentary for casting his daughter in a false light.
The coroner responsible for the inquest of Amy Winehouse's death has resigned after it was discovered she did not meet strict UK guidelines. Winehouse's family says it is "absorbing" the news and seeking legal advice. David Bowie passed away a year ago on January 10, followed by other iconic stars, such as Prince and Leonard Cohen.
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