Bro, how often does he flip flop? Like, choose a side already.
That is quite literally the problem with bipolar disorder. Your state of mind is always in danger of flip-flopping, whether you even intended it or not. Usually you
don't intend it to, and it still fucks you over when you're suddenly finding yourself to be a contrarian even towards yourself. It's not pleasant.
I'm really curious if he's actually mentally ill. The meds given for issues like these really do change you. It's not just like being constantly sedated, they affect your way of thinking. Anger dies down, empathy goes way up. You're stifled creatively because your brain is numb and you are not who you were anymore. You feel like thoughts are literally being pulled out of your head as you think them, then you forget about them.
I do get that his outbursts and flip flops don't seem very normal, but is an artist being eccentric and retarded really mental illness? He got diagnosed in 2016 when a lot of psychiatrists were giving diagnoses and drugs like candy. A lot of peers at the time got them too since it was the trend.
Where do personality and stupidity stop and where does mental illness begin?
What did he even do? He got on stage and said beyonce had the best album way back when and some other shenanigans like that. He said retarded shit that many people disagreed with. He then affiliated with Milo and started hating on jews, but in his hate he actually did make a lot of fair points that were unjustifiably shut down by everyone. What, you can't even note that media corporations are generally literally headed by jews? This is just an observation, not whatever the very anti-jewish people on here yell.
He didn't even say anything that extreme, at first he was more or less having dumb conversations. He got more extreme as he kept getting more and more censored(and arguably even then his opinions weren't that crazy iirc). If anyone was in his position they'd probably not act in the most rational way just given the circumstances alone.
He made some funny songs, he said blacks choose to be slaves(which is objectively true) and a lot of other stuff that just seem like pretty normal opinions many people have but just don't say out loud.
People with normal childhoods generally don't become artists. He certainly has some issues, but I don't know if they're the type of issues he should be drugged for.
Am I just too retarded and sleep deprived or does any of this make sense?
I'd say you are mostly there, it's just that these aren't necessarily mutually exclusive—at least I wouldn't consider them so. It is entirely possible to be both mentally ill and still able to make some observations that make sense.
The problem then rears its head in when, as you say, people get involved externally. It feels obvious to say that "you're not the only person in the world" and a lot of people around you are going to be different, but it follows then that a lot of people you meet could well have their own problems and neuroses too, perhaps similar to your own, or perhaps completely different. Struggling with a condition which can indeed be destructive and cause genuine delusion is one thing already, but it's another can of worms when, the moment it gets picked up, it becomes easy for everyone around him to still effectively mould him into the shape that
they prefer for him.
There's always the risk that, your own delusions notwithstanding, people could just as easily try to implant their own potential delusions into you with the convenient excuse that "you're the mentally ill one, we're trying to help you". Having to discern then what is delusion and what is real, knowing that you already have quite a fragile state of mind that dampens your ability to do so, is an existential Hell. Even when you do have insight into a condition like this in your own case, all that means is that you're now constantly walking along a tightrope just going about your day-to-day when you have to watch everything you have to say, worried that either you're going to self-destruct eventually or that someone else around you might severely lash out towards you. It becomes a vicious cycle then of even further paranoia, hence even further delusion.
Assuming those are his own words, Ye is pretty much spot-on when it comes to just how nasty bipolar disorder can be as a condition. I personally wouldn't wish this sort of experience on anyone, even if I hated them.