This is a common pattern.<p>The issue is not really the pressure, even if the pressure itself can be extremely toxic over a long duration.<p>The problem is the lack of satisfaction from personal growth.<p>We're all built with an internal feedback loop, inherited from our complex evolutionary path, this feedback loop is mostly sensitive to change.<p>It is impossible to live a happy life without positive feedback into this loop.<p>It does not matter how rich, powerful or famous you are, all of that is quickly integrated to be "normal", we need constant improvement or at least fluctuations with some positive slope.<p>Hell is being born with everything and slowly losing status, friends, money and hope.
This is a strangely written story. I don't get the point of hiding who the person is until the end, it's not like keeping them a secret changed how I felt about their tale.<p><i>spoiler, since that's how this article is written</i> Do they think I'd go "oh, who cares about Elvis' grandson?" More likely people wouldn't know anything about his grandson and back out after the first line.
The lack of purpose seems a current plague on humanity, especially with rates of suicide. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankyl got through to me. Now with kids of my own - I can only help so much, their lives will have to be from their own will to live.
Elvis was a singular talent. I feel like to consider a lineage "royalty of X", there need to be multiple members of the family who dominate the field. Not that that changes much about his sad story.