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My partner's grandma worked at a mental health/substance abuse clinic for the rich and famous. It's like a spa with doctors, from what she said. They had some kind of system where people who really need privacy arrive in blacked out cars and get an entirely one on one experience.
I'm sure there's plenty of clinics like that.
"If you put a billionaire in a group setting, even with well-off middle-class people, they will not be able to relate to each other,” Gerber told me. They are not like the rest of us, these people; their lives and minds have been transformed by their fortunes.
I did not finish the article because it reads as a tourism advertisement that overly romanticizes things. But this quote alone tells a striking short story of the terrible tragedy of being a billionare.
I couldn't say for psychosis type stuff but I would guess at a private house somewhere with a private doctor, or somewhere with a large grounds with the same facilities. I think that's more or less how it is with rehab - somewhere where everyone pays more and signs an NDA.
For dementia though I do know a care home near me has a lot of old famous actors with dementia and such in it, and that's just it really. You pay a bit extra for it, but mainly it's that friends in the industry would point to it as the right place to go, and at this point its just the self fulfilling tradition for that facility. Celebrity A goes because Celebrity B and C are there, then B and C die but Celebrity D and E join because celebrity A is there. And so on.
Well the really wealthy could just afford to have a therapist and a pill-dispensing psychiatrist with them at all times if they so wished, just private doctor stuff and I assume billionaires, the top bourgeoisie have a private circuit of doctors and specialists who only ever treat them, their kids, etc and none of them would ever know about the other clients or know very little. They also like to go on little private mental health retreats with other members of their class to places like Aspen at $20,000 a night or some place in the middle of nowhere where they all go ayahuasca or whatever.
But celebrities and the lower bourgeoisie go to mental health spas. Clinics that may also treat substance abuse disorders. These places charge a lot of money, we're talking like at least $10,000 cash a stay out of pocket, more likely $50,000-$100,000 or more a stay for the really exclusive ones. So the amount of people who can afford these places boils down to celebrities, the wealthy, certain c-suite types who might get the company to pay for it, etc. None of which are likely to go around blabbing about who they saw imminently and certainly not with any details of what was going on or the why of them being there. (The celebrity themselves can have some fashionable excuse like burn-out from working too hard)
Also these places probably have people who enter them sign NDAs or similar not to disclose identities or issues of other patients and pissing off other powerful wealthy people is a good way to end up without money and without friends (because they're all in the same circles and no one wants to hang around a snitch or invite them to parties) after being sued into oblivion by their legal team joined by that of the clinic with a dead to rights paper you signed agreeing not to talk.
Besides that they could have a policy of no real names or first names only or allow patients to enroll under an alias.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
i worked at a place that used to be this, i'm almost certain. imagine ~2000 acres secluded property in a beautiful part of the Ohio River Valley, incredible rolling hills and scattered little 1-2br houses along walkable dirt paths with views, little 10-20 min hikes through grasslands and wooded fragments to see waterfalls and the like. there was a central building complex with like a lecture hall and compartmentalized classrooms for group therapy. i was always told is used to be a "retreat/clinic" back in the 60s/70s.
the family that owned it was bananatown crazy rich and very connected to regional capital formations, including heathcare provisioning and insurance.
you could drive right by it and never know it was there, everything was deeply set back into the property, like an estate almost except no downton abbey ass house looming.