Kanye West may be one of the most bashed rappers in the game, due to his twisted social/political views…but every now and then he manages to garner public support for his ability to be transparent about his struggles…much like now.
As we’ve all heard by now, Kanye was diagnosed as bipolar, a couple years ago. After recently revealing his struggles with mental health, he has seldomly spoken publicly about it, with his most recent being in a new interview on David Letterman’s Netflix show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.
Why Kanye Was Handcuffed To Hospital Bed…
‘Ye stunned the audience when he revealed the time he was recently involuntarily handcuffed to a hospital bed in a mental hospital, as he was in the midst of one of his “hyper-paranoid” episodes:
Kanye- “You feel everyone wants to kill you, you pretty much don’t trust everyone, and they have this moment where they handcuff you, they drug you, they put you on the bed, and they separate you from everyone you know.”
It was a traumatizing experience for Kanye and one that he has now vowed to fight against for others who suffer from mental illness:
“That’s something that I’m so happy I experienced myself so I can start by changing that moment. When you are in that state, you have to have someone you trust. It is cruel and primitive to do that.”
Kanye continued:
“When you ramp up, it expresses your personality more. You can become almost more adolescent in your expression. This is my specific experience that I’ve had over the past two years, because I’ve only been diagnosed for two years now.
“When you’re in this state, you’re hyper-paranoid about everything. Everyone — this is my experience, other people have different experiences everyone now is an actor. Everything’s a conspiracy. You feel the government is putting chips in your head. You feel you’re being recorded. You feel all these things.”
