In a study carried out in 2014, Mental Health America found that Black/African-American teenagers are more likely to attempt suicide than their White counterparts.
Today, as unconfirmed reports cite a breakdown as the reason behind Kanye West‘s hospitalisation in Los Angeles, members of the African-American community have urged his fans and naysayers to remove the stigma attached to mental illness with the community.
How?
By sharing their moving stories.
Read a few below…
I’ve had to fight on more than 1 battlefront of mental health, with my reality being chalked up to laziness, seeking attention, or the devil
— Patti LaHelle (@_maleficentt) November 22, 2016
an open letter about my music career, the struggles I faced these past years & some of my mental issues. I encourage everyone to read this. pic.twitter.com/gQPK1KWhah
— Richey Collazo ?? (@RicheyCollazo) November 22, 2016
Kanye like many black boys out there are swimming in fire when it comes to their mental health and we are taught to be strong but we can’t
— Baps Wodumo (@KgosiLesedi) November 22, 2016
People like this is why the black community continues to deny they have mental health issues, disgusting https://t.co/Ztp6lFSk5R
— Baby Kim K (@Ashkronomical) November 22, 2016
It’s important to note that West’s camp is yet to reveal why he was hospitalised.
However, the incident has sparked a debate around the Black community’s reluctance to seek psychiatric help and how this may stem from its mistrust of the scientific community.
Why this may be?
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Kanyes rep said he’s exhausted. It’s funny how folks want to dismiss him as crazy because he put Beyawnce’s shady ass on blast
Beyonce is psychotic too though.
You are forever talking s***, with your missing chromosome looking ass ?
@Maurice You forgot to add devious, uncouth, manipulative, conniving, psychotic mess!
I agree Maurice. Also you forgot greedy, opportunistic, spoiled and entitled.
Kanye has been going in mental circles for YEARS. He married a VAMPIRE Kardashian. Which means…….. he will either end up in a h_oe house high on pills, rehab, a transexual or child rapis_t like Tyga. Sad by true.
This man has shown signs of eccentricity and weirdness ever since his mother died.
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What he did at that award show where he bashed Taylor for Bey WAS NOT NORMAL. Who does that?
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Many weird incidents came after but never had there been such a campaign to paint him as a psycho that needs to be in a mad ward UNTIL he exposed Beyonce.
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The timing says too much. They did the exact same thing with Solo until the public shamed Beyonce for allowing the media to damage her sister’s image at the sake of her own.
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I don’t trust the Carters!
Child r***** like Jay Z in the days of the Alliyahs.
Beyawnce’s “career” will never be the same.Everyone now knows what a cheater she is
Oh PLEASE anyone with one brain cell knows how much politics goes on at award shows. Even if it is true, legit, no one cares. She’s in good company considering its more or less the done thing in showbiz from grammys to oscars. If this is news to you then you’re extremely pure and innocent which is a nice thing tbh! lol
No one cares? People do care and most folks already know about the cheaters in the music industry. It’s all smokes and mirrors. Most folks in the real world are not checking for your faves. Their management make them appear bigger than they really are.
Our fave has the best selling female album of the year. She is arguably the most popular celeb in the world right now. Who isn’t checking for her?
You stans don’t get it do you? Your faves success is all smokes and mirrors. Most folks in the real world are not checking for your faves let alone buying their albums or tour tickets. Their suggest is exaggerated by their management
Omg suddenly everyone realizes that Kanye is coo coo for coco puffs. Lol leave this man alone! He knows more than u ever will about the industry’s shenanigans
Anyone with two braincells to rub together can tell he has been losing his marbels for a long time now, Does not help that he married into a witch coven which been sucking his soul dry. Poor kanye in his pursuit to bag himself a beyonce he got stuck with a w**** who needs the soul of men to keep her plastic parts from rotting and her fame from fading.
He may be losing his marbles but I believe what he said about Beyawnce the Cheater. I don’t think he’s lying about that
Of course you would … Even if it were true who says Beyonce is the only one to play industry politics.let’s not deceive ourselves even riri,Madonna,Drake do….ciara would if she had enough clout too bad she doesnt.
They all do it. Not just Beyawnce. I need you silly fans to stop bragging about your faves'”success” when a lot of them buy their success.It’s all smokes and mirrors
Ciara has integrity. That’s why she doesn’t do it. Don’t be proud because your faves are buying their success
Chile… This man been lost his marbles. Which sane person goes to an award ceremony to rant and blast them on live TV?
I don’t even use the Kumtrashians but even i must admit that every family is dysfunctional, some just hide it better than others.
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Kanye’s health was in question from he disrupted a major award show to rant on live TV in the name of Beyonce, his “friend”. He should have been in an asylum from then.
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Now that he exposed the truth about her he’s suddenly in desperate need of mental treatment. Lol The Carter’s are behind this.
I didn’t know this, why they keep it secret, this is not something to be ashamed of.
Yeah you’re a prime example of mental instability.
This is not something to make fun, have some compassion.
Who’s making fun..you are a prime example of poor mental health.
OOPS!
Oh now everyone wants to have a conversation after ridiculing him. He still hasn’t dealt with his mothers death.
Beyoncé didn’t “cheat” when MTV could’ve reserved the right to pass on her offer to perform, altogether and give the award out based on the merits of the videos themselves and I highly doubt neither Hotline Bling nor Famous would’ve been strong enough to contend with Formation, anyhow (considering how her team allegedly campaigned for a VOTY Moonman but somehow also walked away with a ton of awards in the technical fields this year, as well).
But on the flipside, even if she did campaign for VOTY… industry politics have decided these types of things for decades (ex: My girl Ari winning for AOTY at the AMA’s despite literally everyone else nominated in the category having a stronger impact than her this year… most likely leading one to assume that she wom because her team campaigned for it or bc she was literally the only one nominated in the category who could be bothered to show up and perform). Yet, I didn’t see any outrage about that.
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Whole time Beyoncé is some where laughing at y’all thinking that she cares. The thing is she’s so powerful that worst things can come out about her and she still be on top.
The day she addresses rumors and leaked elevator footage that’s when she cares. She’s playing this industry well and the reason why she’s getting away with it is because she delivers and as long as she delivers she’ll be fine to buy or accept that award.
Kanye just needs his aunt or someone to smack him down to earth in other words he needs his family and not Kim’s.
She indirectly addressed rumours through about elevatorgate with the On The Run Tour with her and JayZ. Also after being scolded by the public for allowing her sister to be tainted by mental issues, she released some photos on social media with solo. She cares. Beyonce has always cared that’s why she cheats her way to the top by pooling millions into dirty political moves behind the scenes. She has always been an insecure entitled mess since Destiny’s Child days.
I’m just coming to the realization that no good comes to people who talk ill of Beyonce.
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I was reading the comments from his rants post n i was laughing my b*** off @ the navy jumping ship yet again believing some non-sense coming from the same person who said he was more famous than Jesus and lied about Obama calling his housephone.
Mess. I saw a video of Snoop Dogg shading the life out of Kanye ?.
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What irked me the most was the fact that people on here were saying that there is no way Beyonce could win Video of the year because the song flopped on radio n didn’t sell much.. That stupid logic yo. We all know what happened at the 2015 Grammys when an album that barely sold 300k WW with lower metacritic score won over Beyonce’s universally acclaimed album that sold over 4Mil at the time. So that whole “Beyonce forces herself into winning” argument is futile. If Bey was that much into herslef, she would have won all those obvious awards that she clearly deserved and everyone thought that she waz to get. Even her singles wouldn’t be flopping cause she would be having radio deals like Rihanna n Katy Perry. Yall know what im talking about. Your faves ain’t even innoncent.
I see no lies #truetalk
You need to stop worrying about Katy and Rihanna and accept that your fave is being outed as a cheater and a fraud by the same person whom was once closely affiliated with her, her team, and her family. He knows your fave better than you ever will. *sips tea*
They didn’t send the shooters. They send the doctors to get him.
Stressful all the time, always complaining about something, lacking sleep because Saint is always crying because he knows he’s in the house of evil.
Kanye needs a rest !
We saw how they tried solange’s mental health after she kung fu kicked the shyyt out of JZ.
They have a lot more material to work with for Kanye which is sad. However it doesn’t mean that he’s lying about the Carters’.
Kanye hasn’t been well since his mother passed away and that was around 2007. So he’s been dealing with this for a very long time and it’s crazy to me that ppl would try to dismiss this as “he just different” or try to blame the carter’s for this. It’s also clear that this isn’t just one issue but many underlying issues with his illness and his manic behavior is evidence of this
Hmmm This man has always been odd. People been saying it got worst after his mom died. However, there is something to say about the timing of this mental health campaign.
I truly hope within time Kanye gets better emotionally. Truth be told Kanye really wants the sucess of jay z and wants to be him in so many ways and one being that he have his true love which is Beyonce. Kanye is in love with Beyonce and hurt that she don’t feel the same toward him.This is why now he’s spirally out of control and his target is the Carter mainly express Beyonce I’m hurt his love for her is so much more than what people realize. With both Jay and bey not giving in to his every cry it’s become over whaming for him.
Oh he’s crazy now that he clocked Hoeyonce?
Exactly. He’s getting that Solo treatment. Beyonce doesn’t want her image tainted.
Well he did say he didn’t care if he lost his career as he needed to say what’s in his heart. I think he knew that this mental illness campaign would be a card they would play. If they did it to Solo of all people O_o
He may has been like this for a longtime before he met Kimberly kardashian aka Kim