Amanda Bynes Goes Twitter Silent; Will She Stay Locked up?

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Since her early-October Twitter breakdown where she accused her father of sexually molesting her, Amanda Bynes has gone silent on Twitter.

Bynes retracted the statements about her dad, blaming them on "a microchip in her her brain" in an October 10 post.

Since that bizarre rant and retraction, Bynes has only posted once more.

Lufti is the former svengali who many blamed for Britney Spears' problems. In this case, he was reported to have lured Bynes to Los Angeles where here family was able to put her into treatment.

Bynes, 28, was admitted to a Pasadena, California, facility on an involuntary emergency psychiatric hold after she returned and her stay was extended by two weeks Tamar Arminak, a lawyer for Bynes' family, confirmed to ABC News.

For her to be forced to stay longer, a hearing would have to be held this week

"In a perfect world, one would be honest about getting a person into a psychiatric hospital, but from her past behavior we have seen that Amanda Bynes avoids psychiatric hospitals at all cost because she doesn't believe that she's sick," Dr.

Carole Lieberman, a Los Angeles psychiatrist who has followed Bynes' story, told CNN.