Kanye West’s Vice Presidential Pick Has Some Very Bad Ideas About How to Treat Mental Illness
EMILY KIRKPATRICK
JULY 13, 2020 4:23 PM
Every controversial presidential hopeful needs an equally problematic V.P., and Kanye West’s vice presidential pick just might have even worse ideas than he does.
In the same Forbes interview in which he announced he’s running as the Birthday Party’s presidential nominee, West also revealed that he’s already chosen Cody, Wyoming-based “biblical life coach” Michelle Tidball to be his vice president.
In a June 2017 audio clip obtained by TMZ, which has since been removed from her yarash.org website, Tidball—who claims to have “various degrees in mental health and criminal justice”—says that the way to treat mental illness is by doing chores. “If you would get up every day and make your bed and do your dishes, you would be better,” she says, noting that in her 10 years of working with the mentally ill, none of them made their beds or did their dishes.
In a bio that has also been removed from her site, she writes, “I pursue God! As long as I can remember including a time when I was six months old and my mother awoke to find that I was slipping away into a crib death. In a hospital tent God first visited me and spoke life which I can still recall today.... At seventeen I made the decision to follow Him all the days of my life!”
West has been spending much of his time in recent years at his home near Cody, Wyoming, where he likely met Tidball. In June 2018, the rapper revealed that at age 39 he was diagnosed with a “mental condition,” explaining that “it’s not a disability, it’s a superpower.” In December of that year, he also tweeted that he “cannot be on meds and make watch the throne level or dark fantasy level music.”
More at the link.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/07/kanye-west-vice-president-michelle-tidball
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I really feel sorry for Kanye. I wish he'd get some help but I highly suspect anosognosia is standing in his way. It's really very sad. If bipolar disorder is his diagnosis and he's having a manic episode with psychosis he's possibly at risk for suicide.
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It is estimated that nearly 30% of those diagnosed with bipolar disorder will attempt suicide at least once in their lives. 1 The suicide rate for people with bipolar disorder is twenty times that of the general population.
Reference: https://www.helpguide.org/articles/bipolar-disorder/bipolar-disorder-signs-and-symptoms.htm
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