I have am not afraid to share that I have struggled with depression in the past have take anti-depressants to help.
I love to draw, play instruments, photography, and all types of creative hobbies. I work professionally in media production. And I can tell you the only thing that hampers my creativity more than anything else is depression. I can promise you this guy is not settled in the studio writing lyricis and making beats when hes on these unstable psychotic episodes. He gets that works done when he's on his meds, mentally and emotionally stable, cooperative, and able to reason with others.
I agree he is being taken advantage of, but he is making his own choices. Mental health therapy is about surrendering your ego and your beliefs-some even instilled in you by parents and churches you trusted-and accepting a world where there is nothing to prove and there is equality between you and others. At some point in the journey you have to make a choice to either surrender your ego and accept your normal humanity or hold on to your ego and continue believing you have some great wisdom and destiny that no one else understands.
Kanye has been afforded a life we could only dream. He has all the resources in the world to be truly happy. He chooses to be this revolutionary thinking tragic artist. He doesn't want to commit to any work or surrender to any help that means he is no longer special. He doesnt want to find healthier ways to heal his pain and his insecurities when they rise up. He does not want to give up on his self beliefs of being a once-in-a-generation creative genius. He is more comfortable being the main character of a Shakespearen tragedy and a new age Bible story.
There are many celebrities who go through what he goes through, took responsibility for it, surrendered those feelings, and are living healthier and relatively humble lives full of creative output. His arrogance is what's hampering his work and destroying his life.
I don’t know if I agree that his wealth should make his situation any better, I’d argue it’s probably worse. When you think about how he accumulated his wealth, if you listen to his old stuff he talks about his belief in himself, and really his arrogance got him to where he is. And he firmly believes that. And to some degree, any career in the music industry does require you to be somewhat arrogant. Just like every basketball or football player believes they’re the best at what they do, you kind of have to, to deal with that kind of adversity where very little people end up ‘making it’. People with BPD can also suffer from delusions of self grandeur and feel overly important. When you make a shyt ton of money based on your ambition and arrogance, wouldn’t that only fuel your arrogance? “I’ve been arrogant before, why wouldnt it work again? Look at all the money I’ve accumulated, of course I know what’s right.”
It’s possible that Kanye is just ambitious or arrogant as a person, and that his delusions of grandeur are also a thing too and it just further complicates trying to pin down what is ego and what is mental illness…And it’s probably even harder for him to tell the difference himself and that further contributes to his hesitance about taking medication.
Some celebrities with BPD killed themselves (Amy Winehouse), and others had mental breakdowns and were never the same (Lindsey Lohan, Amanda Bynes etc).
Ultimately, yes, he has to make the decision to help himself. If we just shifted responsibility away from people with mental illness, there would be no point in helping them because you have to help yourself before others can help when it comes to mental illness. But that isn’t an easy journey to make and no one is helping by giving him interviews or by using him for financial gain. I just don’t like seeing someone with a mental illness that isn’t a secret at all, being treated as if he doesn’t have one at all. And especially not from a society that supposedly rallies around mental health awareness, but only when its easy or convenient, like when their friend is suffering from depression and not when a relative stranger they KNOW has BPD is saying off the wall shyt.
