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Many people can be high achieving and functional despite having mental health issues and pushback from people like you.

Kanye has made decisions his whole life. Maybe some were bad but he has made it through and succeeded to a high degree.

He has obviously gone off the rails and needs help (I don't think he was like this many years ago). I'm disappointed that people view his antics as entertainment. He is serious, and quite obviously has a progressing problem. My original question, which has already been down-voted, was sincere.

Par for the course in America, he will probably end up jailed due to his mental health issues.

is anyone else completely uncomfortable with how completely comfortable everyone is with people playing armchair psychiatrist for people they've never even personally met these days

Yes. “Everyone I disagree with is crazy” is a real thing and disgusting. Reading a psychology book and a couple pop news articles doesn’t make these people psychiatrists or psychologists.

Psychiatry has been used as a political weapon for nearly as long as it has existed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry

Except Brittney.

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