I’m bipolar, and it hurts to see the way people are responding to Kanye West’s manic episode

metro.co.uk:

Kanye West – who has been open about his bipolar diagnosis – and his plight at the minute. At a rally for his presidential campaign on 19 July, he gave an erratic speech and broke down in tears.

On Twitter a couple of days later, he shared that his wife Kim Kardashian West had sought involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation for him, and that he refuses treatment, as well as making other headline-grabbing claims about the family.

It’s not my place to talk about Kanye’s specific circumstances or treatment, nor anyone’s, but what I do want to draw attention to is the way we speak about serious mental health problems.What’s been clear from the reaction to Kanye’s behaviour is that there is still a huge lack of compassion and understanding of.