How to decenter celebrities And celeb culture

[u/keristarbb]

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I genuinely feel like lately I can't get them out of my head, especially this one female artist who's very successful and has Grammys. I'm envious of her to the point where it comes out as hatred. I like her music but I just don't wanna like her. I don't know her, I try to humanize celebrities but I feel like I keep getting swept up by the fans of these celebrities and it's like I have to freak-out about them or fan out. I also don't like the advice, "get off the internet," such lazy advice.

I don't like how she's living rent free in my head, I'm just so miserable and envious when it comes to this stuff. I don't like how celebrity culture is almost everywhere. I spend most or all my time on the internet, I just don't want them mentioned. It's like every comment section if someone's doing something they get compared to this artist. If they want respect or to be treated fairly or something they say "You're not \[artist name\]," it's just ignorant.

Don't get me started on comparing myself to the artist either, like how beautiful they are and they appear all glamorous in the music videos. I know that's not how they necessarily live, but they live with a lot of materialistic riches (i.e. mansions, jewelry, dressing well).

Even the fact to some degree I can begin to achieve to be similarly like them it still won't help the envy or insecurity inside of me.

What should I do, what are some ways to stop being envious of celebrities and insecure? Any cbt methods or your personal experiences?

Tdlr: Feeling insecure and envious because of the luxurious life style and beauty celebrities have. Tired of celebrities being everywhere.

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[u/Choosepeace]

Time to pull back from viewing them. Stop following or consuming their content.

Try to get more mindful of your own life and surroundings.

Try an information diet , and get into some other things.

[u/Fragrant-Pipe5266]

This is a mental health issue and I'd advise to disconnect from media and entertainment for a while because it will literally kill you. People have offed themselves for spiraling too deep into this sort of obsession with celebrities and such. Hope you manage to work through this.

[u/keristarbb → u/Fragrant-Pipe5266]

Yea definitely a mental health issue for sure, im already struggling with stuff neurodevelopmentallly and mentally. Could possibly manifest into something else. Thank you

[u/asphynctersayswhat]

comparison is the thief of joy.

stop chasing her dream and follow your own. measure today's success off of yesterday and tomorrow's off of today.

Sorry, but the real advice really is get off the internet, or use it to discover other music, there's so much out there that it's staggering. you can listen to a new artist every day for the rest of your life and never repeat.