Kanye West's Manic Crisis

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For 15 years or more, I had been in a cycle of very common to people with bipolar disorder. So the experience of having a manic period and developing psychosis was certainly not new to me. My position has always been that my mental state does not excuse the things that I do when I am manic, but it does explain them. And it should therefore mitigate, not remove, but mitigate responsibility.

UnHerd's Florence Read meets American author Freddie deBoer to discuss the curious case of Kanye West.

In the space of a few months Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has gone from world-famous rapper to appearing on Alex Jones’s InfoWars praising Hitler. It’s not clear if he will ever recover reputationally from the stigma of this episode.

What lessons can we take from the public's treatment of the rapper?

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