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Oct. 10, 2022 - Lionel Nation

13:35

Spotlight: Kanye West and Mental Illness

Kanye has been yet again used, abused and trotted out until he said what he was prone to saying and now he's been abandoned. And it's his fault. In part.

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	One of the worst things that you can ever be labeled or branded in this country right now is crazy.
	Mentally ill, crazy, cray-cray, local, out of your mind.
	In fact, look at the different ways and different euphemisms that various countries have for insane and the like.
	We have a medieval interest in it.
	We're still...
	It's still like that rubbernecking fascination with accidents.
	Look at the number of people on social media.
	Psychiatrists who talk forever about narcissism and behavioral disorders and psychopathy and borderline behavior.
	And that's a personality.
	Disorder versus society.
	Yeah, drink versus...
	And even the distinctions don't make any sense because what we do is we are fascinated and have always been fascinated by the notion of crazy.
	The people who act crazy are sources of tremendous, sad to say, tremendous moments of, I hate to say it, tremendous sources of amusement.
	And it's true.
	It's one of these things where we're fascinated by the notion of this.
	In 1972, Thomas Eagleton ran with George McGovern.
	And it turns out that he was, I believe, thrice either treated or hospitalized for a series of mental illnesses.
	Depression, bipolar disorder, perhaps.
	He received even ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, a.k.a.
	Shock treatment.
	And what do you think of?
	What do you think of when I say shock treatment?
	What is it that comes to mind?
	Tell me.
	Cuckoo's nest.
	Remember that?
	When they got a hold of Jack Nicholson and they stuck that rubber nozzle in his mouth.
	Remember that one?
	And yet, what's so interesting to note is that ECT has saved more people's lives than you could ever imagine.
	And we know nothing about it.
	But we look at it and we gawk at it.
	Because it's fascinating.
	And by the way, it is fascinating.
	I'm not suggesting that it's not.
	It is fascinating.
	But we don't know anything about it.
	We still confuse psychotic with neurotic.
	Crazy is one huge definition.
	Look at yesterday's New York Post.
	Look at this.
	Friends certain Kanye West is in the midst of a psychiatric episode.
	Now psychiatric is a medical definition.
	Not psychological, not behavioral, not emotional, but psychiatric.
	We use the terms interchangeably.
	When it comes to precision, we are not exactly examples of how best to react.
	Now, I'm telling you, if ever we do something, if we were to do something really beneficial across the board, across the political landscape, The spectrum, various size, no matter who you are, no matter where you're from, no matter anything.
	And I will let the social commentators discuss what Kanye said.
	The lunacy or sagacity of that, that bores me.
	We've been through this because there's a subset to this, which I don't want to get too, too much into detail with.
	I talk about it on my private channel, but I'm not going to be played.
	And I think you know where I'm going with this.
	Because it's the beginning of time.
	When it comes to the notion of using something for publicity, people will do it.
	By the way, parenthetically, watch Kanye's friends decide against further association and support of this person.
	Now, I know nothing about him.
	Don't know about his past.
	Don't know anything about what people say about him.
	I really don't know.
	I could not.
	If you played a series of music and put in a Kanye West song or piece, I wouldn't know it.
	So I'm not coming at this as a friend of Kanye, as a detractor, or the Kardashians or anything.
	I'm talking to you as somebody who has been now in his 40th year as a lawyer.
	And I have seen it like you can't believe.
	My undergrad was psychology.
	Not that that means anything, but I have been fascinated.
	By the fragility of the human mind.
	And when a person is called crazy or intimated, in fact, years ago, when people applied for professional licensing, whether it was for a bar exam or medical licenses, if you had any kind of substance or emotional problems, you could forget it.
	In fact, it was so bad in the old days that you were denied a law license if you were divorced.
	This is.
	Ancient times.
	And finally people are saying, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait, we have to look at this.
	Because there's a demonization here of individuals who have been labeled in any way whatsoever with the notion of mentally ill.
	And what happens is, when your goal is to go out, let's take, for example, Kanye West, or anybody, and I'm not suggesting this.
	This is going on here.
	But if I were to say, listen, I want my film crew to go out and I want you to get as many pictures, maybe go through file pictures, of Kanye looking crazy in support of, let's say, a series we're doing or whatever.
	I promise you, you will be able to say, well, this is crazy.
	No, he's not.
	He's looking down.
	No, but he might be looking down.
	He might be peering from behind a pillar.
	He might be wearing a hoodie or a hat.
	He might be trying to disguise himself as celebrities are oftentimes want to do.
	But once you give me the filter of crazy, then what he does looks crazy.
	Because it fulfills kind of like the pre-hypnotic suggestion.
	Here's the article.
	Friends are concerned about psychiatric illness.
	Okay.
	Here's a picture of them.
	Now, this was at a surprise party.
	Or this is, in fact, I'll tell you, years ago, we used to tell certain clients, we have reason to believe that you are going to be filmed using a telephoto lens.
	And you are going to look guilty of anything as you're crossing the street from that grainy...
	It looks like there's surveillance.
	When, in fact, they could have taken the picture of you across the street.
	But sometimes the media have been, perhaps, accidentally, guilty, perhaps, of portraying the message they want...
	The storyline to impart.
	That's all.
	And if you are charged with certain things, if you are, and I know this, in fact, if you were ever arrested, just a little free advice here, do not cover your face.
	Do not do that.
	Walk with your head up high.
	Don't hide handcuffs.
	Show them.
	Look.
	Look what they're doing.
	Look.
	Don't look guilty.
	But it's harder not To look crazy.
	There is a 100% possibility, 100% chance, that everyone watching this now, including you, has had someone in your family who has been in the midst of either a chemical abuse situation,
	dependency, alcohol, mental illness, depression, Depression, PTSD, name it.
	Name it.
	The human condition, the brain, the mind.
	Remember, neurology, psychiatry.
	Hardware, software.
	Neurology deals with things that go wrong.
	Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, things that are wrong.
	Something wrong with your hard drive.
	But psychiatry is software.
	It tends to be something that you can have normally.
	For example, the difference between paranoia and fear and anxiety.
	There are different gradations of this.
	So psychiatry is more interesting.
	It tends to deal with underlying behaviors, and I'm no expert, of course, but it deals with underlying behaviors that are either exaggerated or are somehow...
	Exacerbated or inflated or just plain gone wrong for a variety of reasons.
	And historically, the way we've looked at epilepsy, seizure disorders, Tourette's, psychosis, from the days where we believed in burning people who were witches to possession, you name it.
	Do you know the number of people historically who have been through psychotic episodes and fugues who were told that they were possessed by the devil?
	And it looked, I mean, let's face it, to the untrained medieval eye.
	But you know what?
	And I'm going to be talking more about this.
	Not a whole lot has changed.
	Changed.
	Or chained.
	I don't know what that means.
	So, the jury is out on Kanye as far as psychiatric disorders.
	We're not physicians.
	We've never treated him.
	And also be very careful of professionals who lend their expertise when they've never spoken a word to him.
	That's all I'm going to say about that.
	It's very important right now for you to pass this on.
	Join the millions.
	Of sentient, aware humans who once and for all want us to stop this demonization, this medieval, without due respect to our medieval friends, but this blaspheming,
	this libeling of individuals who, by the way, statistics will bear this off, 99.99% Of everybody diagnosed with a, quote, mental illness, again, on any range from psychosis to neurosis and everything in between, poses no physical threat, no security threat, no criminal threat, has never been in trouble with the law or done anything or...
	No, no, no, no.
	But this has to start now.
	So, read these stories, discuss, utilize your analytical prowess, but keep in mind...
	That it does no one any good to continue this kind of a tittering, this mocking derision of people who are, quote, psychiatrically impaired or mentally ill.

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