To Britney,

I don't know you at all, but I'm feeling anxious for you right now, and am genuinely worried. I think there are probably several hundred thousand people, if not millions who also feel exactly as worried as me. We are feeling sick about your current situation and many of us are wondering how we could possibly help.

We're the ones who helped bring this on in the first place. By gawking and posting about you we've placed you as the number one celebrity of all time since the beginnings of the internet. No one truly understands the weight of this burden. Even someone like the President of the United States or the CEO of the biggest company in the world has maybe less than 1% of the media and personal hassle that you have to experience daily.

You are so young to have been in this online media prison for so long. You are very likable and beautiful, it's very tempting to gawk at your every move. But this is not your problem. Except that there has never been a time in human history where this extreme level of daily paparazzi and media abuse existed. And you have felt the enormously heavy and unbreathable weight of it many degrees more than any other person or celebrity alive or dead. It's really almost not humanly possible to survive as a healthy and happy human being in the flashbulb fishbowl that you have to live in every single day.

I'm sure you get thousands of emails a day from people who sincerely want to help any way they can. Please count us in as one more.