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In Excess
ADDICTION
Why We Seek the High of Stardom
But once we achieve it, the trouble really begins.
Posted March 24, 2014
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Back in the mid-1990s, I started doing some research on the psychology of fame with Dr. Adam Joinson. One of the first things we did after setting up our website (the not-so-originally titled ‘The Psychology of Fame Project’) was go and interview British PR guru and ‘fame-maker’ Max Clifford. We enjoyed our interview and published it in an issue of the British magazine Psychology Post. One of the more interesting claims made by Max Clifford was his assertion that fame is addictive. He said: “The sad part about [fame] is people that desperately need to become famous. It’s like a drug...and there’s so many people that come up and then they go, and when you meet them they are desperate, desperate for it. I mean, they are living 10, 15, 20 years ago when they were famous, they can’t accept they are no longer famous. It is an addiction. It’s a craving. It varies from individual to individual but it’s the same as drugs or alcohol or anything else. At it’s worst – and I’ve known a lot of the worst – it totally takes over your life, your philosophy, your outlook on everyday life. It’s tragic. The way it normally works is that somebody becomes famous so they follow the natural path. In other words, the bigger house, the bigger car, the bigger everything. They tend to isolate themselves from people that actually know them and possibly care about them because they aren’t there any more. They then become surrounded by people who live off them, pick off them...who say what the person wants to hear all the time. They become wrapped up in fame and get a totally jaundiced picture of life and reality. Life becomes emptier and emptier and then when the fame’s gone, they can’t handle it. There’s so many people who would do anything, anything to be famous. It’s more important almost than life itself. It’s sad, it’s shocking, and it’s frightening. Not everybody, but there seems to be more and more and more. Maybe just more and more of them are making their way to my door. I don’t know. Fame is becoming a bigger drug than ever." Can fame really be an addiction? There are certainly those in both the academic and medical community who think that it can, although empirical evidence is hard to come by. In a 2011 interview with the US newspaper Palm Beach Post about his conference paper "Power, Fame, and Recovery," the US psychiatrist Reef Karim said, "Little kids today don't want to be doctors or lawyers. They just want to be famous."
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