because i just say it i'll say on real tv like oh i thought about killing
and then the thought is gone you know
kanye west one name several controversies
some fueled by mental health some by ego and most are probably a bit of a combination of the two
i think diagnosis or not a lot of what drives moments like these are just pure adrenaline
west divulged that he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2016 and discussed this
paranoia surrounding people finding out about it music is his therapy and nostalgia is his paradise
he is choosing to embrace his mental illness privately publicly and the most liberating way
he knows how artistically i don't think people know where or how to credit his brilliance you
can't really separate the disorder from the man nor the celebrity from the artist they are one
they are all him so when going back to the past and examining his most infamous moments
what we find is a man who had a lot to say and with an incredible sense of urgency it was very
therapeutic because i wasn't full yeah i don't know if i'm 48 now a better or worse whatever
but it was therapeutic just to listen to those songs and sample and go back to being 14 years old
in my mom's house to suggest that it was always a bipolar episode takes away from the onus of the
several parts of kanye that are won and to suggest that it was just grief from losing his mother or a
big bottle of alcohol does the same it was all the parts of him enter the four kanye west the mayo
clinic describes what several moments of mania can appear as abnormally upbeat jumpy or wired
increased activity energy or agitation exaggerated sense of well-being and self-confidence a lot
like euphoria decreased need for sleep unusual talkativeness racing thoughts distractibility
poor decision-making that usually leads to a lack of inhibition that sounds like mr west i feel that
if i had more resources i could help more people starting with every what everyone's thinking
start there put some dope with it a string of tweets thinking that with no more qualifications
than being over 35 you can be president of the united states storming a stage
spazzing on a collaborator behaviors that are so extreme that you need to be held in a 5150
no one knows where to draw the line between theatrics and a cry for help
but with all stunts usually a show comes to a close kanye seems to be forever running a
public display of his own absurdly honest artistry that quite literally never ends
west had his first blackout at age five it was the type of event that would only grow
worse from there west didn't really blow up until about 2004 by then he had plenty of
time to have episodes privately that only became exacerbated by fame grief alcohol acclaim fame
and back to square one an endless cycle psychology says that actions reveal our inner truths
what is kanye's is there truth to his outburst sure don't shoot the messenger is his delivery a
huge part of why the outbursts are so problematic absolutely there is always a time and place for
kanye that's anytime in any place he feels like it and bipolar highs the person having the episode is
often having a break from reality kanye's opinions might be real but he may not even be all there to
ensure that what he's saying even bears clarity hence the delivery when he has time to cool off
and reflect his energy and explanations are usually pretty coherent sometimes even genius
sometimes not nope not either of those things in an episode or not west incessant ramblings
have never been clearer of someone who cannot seem to muster the right words to express
himself within the context of creativity and bipolar disorder he lives in his own bubble
his own calabasas cove where reality is actually physically cut off from the rest of us
his extreme wealth although aspirational leaves him in a place where he is incredibly disconnected
from the average person and the way that most celebrities are bipolar or not the extremely
wealthy have always been a bit removed from the rest of society you remove an abnormal character
from normal everyday life where no one really has to listen to your ranting and you start to feel
entitled to your own public undoings an audience makes a fool of a man and a truth of society
he was people's class clown the court jester of hip-hop that only knew people were watching
and not how they were watching we can hear in kanye's music that he learned that the hard way
songs like real friends what real friends really come in hollywood or any other place where money
and fame are at the forefront of everything they do just like fame grappling with emotions and
symptoms pushed to the background and buried deep within is incredibly lonely he holds it
in and becomes buried and when he lets it out he flies he soars from the grave of insecurity
into the stratosphere of hope that maybe he can be normal for once at least as a performer
the mentally ill are absurdly creative all that trauma fosters art that can sometimes put
them in a peerless position in their preferred medium of expression kanye defines that to a t
that music has changed the world and his when going back through his best work i wonder how many
of what songs we consume were the aftermath of a manic episode and how often were those episodes
confused with the late night early morning what even is time anymore moment of creativity that
made us worship at the throne of mr kanye west a stanford study showed a link between creativity
and bipolar disorder dr kiki chang stated that there is a reason that many people who
have bipolar disorder become very successful and these findings address the positive aspects of
having this illness the article goes on to explain that many scientists believe that a relationship
exists between creativity and bipolar disorder it is marked by dramatic shifts in a person's mood
energy and ability to function numerous studies have examined this link several
have shown that artists and writers may have two to three times more incidences of psychosis
mood disorders or suicide when compared with people in less creative professions
dr terence ketter professor of psychiatry and behavioral science
and a study co-author said that he became interested in the link between mental illness
and creativity after noticing that patients who came through the bipolar clinic despite having
problems were extraordinarily bright motivated people who tended to lead interesting lives
he began a scholarly pursuit of this link and in 2002 published a study that showed healthy artists
were more similar in personality to individuals with bipolar disorder the majority of whom were
on medication than to healthy people and the general population some researchers
believe that bipolar disorder or mania a defining symptom of the disease causes creative activity
said he believes that bipolar patients creativity stems from their mobilizing
energy that results from negative emotion to initiate some sort of solution to their problems
in this case discontent is the mother of invention he said is being bipolar the key to kanye's music
just as much as the music is an escape from him being bipolar who's to say but him the
people who make money off him the yes men the fans that think that behind every genius
is someone crazy they can't communicate his episodes with any more clarity than i but what
i do know is that kanye's episodes do not outshine that beaming light of musical innovation that made
him famous in the charts before he was famous on tmz his episodes coupled with his expressions
may have made him a star but his mania will never outshine his music subscribe to join the universe
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