I watched the associated livestream just now (and commented on YT). The problem is, Richard cries wolf like this every year and does the exact same thing. No one believes he is going to change because he never does. He's literally the same guy who was begging for x-box donations a few WEEKS into streaming. He had 8 years of relatively peaceful pity seeking and did nothing.
He has done nothing to improve himself outside of going to get Dr. Frankenstein to hack out 70% of his stomach in Mexico. He literally came home after surgery and logged into R6 and bitched about being teamkilled within an hour of arriving. Nutritionist? Nope. Mental health? Nope. Health insurance? Nope. Gym? Nope. Cutting out fast food? Nope. He probably eats more now. He behaves a bit nicer to random children in stream because he gets crucified on highlight channels when he treats people like shit now, and that's a good thing.
No one is obstructing him. He had life changing surgery because of trolls. He has more money now because of trolls. He learned about the pre-reqs about his schooling from the trolls. He learned about the dangers of gastric bypass surgery (lifelong vitamins, teeth rot) from the trolls. When the trolls called him out on his lack of weight loss for the surgery and reminded him that they could cancel it if he didn't eat properly, he hit up Twitter confirming said advice, and consequently cleaned up his act.
So sorry, the Discord and his highlight community are in the process of saving his life, and when he is truly ready to move on and be a normal person, I will leave him be. But for now he needs my help.