Can't think of anyone this might be happening to right now. Not one person. Definitely not anyone rich or famous.
You do a great job at keeping this place worth coming to.
Us as laypeople read an article like this and immediately begin to assess who we know that fits the mold, when we aren't properly trained in human psychology. Having an ego or thick skin is essential to survival in today's world, Heck The Rock has an entire TV show dedicated to stories of his childhood... Yet somehow psychology now wants to convince us that the spectrum for chaos goes from The Rock, To Donald Trump, To your Dad... It not helpful at all to me, and it seems like it only drives polarization rather than problem resolution. I also don't believe that humans stay fixed in one phase, like narcissism or depression, which makes treatment sometimes a really harmful, and often an ineffective but torturous thing to people that receive the classification and treatment.
I respect the fields of psychology and psychiatry, but it seems to me like since the pandemic, they have attracted some highly opportunistic individuals that make generalized characterizations of personalities that truly don't help with problem resolution, but they serve to drive sales of pharmaceuticals and services.
This article advertises "Better Help", a company that totally inundated social media during covid lockdowns. That same company (Better Help) ran TV commercials around that time to, and became popular out of nowhere. I assume they made a lot of money off of mental health marketing because even my family members and friends began to tell me about the company, how telehealth services for mental health did not work well for them, and how the company quickly billed them for undelivered services.
If you look up the definition for "BiPolar" it literally looks to me like it includes absolutely everyone I know --
Symptoms - Bipolar disorder
feeling sad, hopeless or irritable most of the time. lacking energy. difficulty concentrating and remembering things. loss of interest in everyday activities. feelings of emptiness or worthlessness. feelings of guilt and despair. feeling pessimistic about everything. self-doubt.
SOURCE: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/bipolar-disorder...
That is any of us (conveniently) throughout our lives... Including some highly functional and responsibly motivated people. We go through peaks and valleys in life, If all modern psychiatry does is seek to drive medication and counselling profit and to generalize conditions across very different people to gaslight and create paranoia for profit, it's a highly problematic and costly threat towards our future.
Right now, in many states, individuals can file mental health petitions against friends and family members that get them involuntarily detained, even when they haven't committed any crimes, have no history of drug abuse, and have not shown any violent behavior. It's based on generalized conditions that the industry issues like this, and like the one for bipolar... It can and is being weaponized against many people, and it also drives a vast amount of unexpected medical billing for affected individuals that didn't even consent to being detained for the evaluations.
My advice is to be very wary of psychology for profit, and advice from companies that drive it.
If you look up the definition for "Bi Polar" it literally looks to me like it includes absolutely everyone I know, including some highly functional and responsibly motivated people. We go through peaks and valleys in life, If all modern psychiatry does is seek to drive profit and to generalize conditions across very different people to gaslight and create paranoia for profit, its a highly problematic threat towards our future.Because of the nature of how much social media and software drives our lives now, it's embedded deeply into emotionally manipulating people more than ever, and it complicates human psychology greatly. The best treatment for some afflictions is often to disconnect from toxic Internet resources rather than taking a pill. It's evidenced by Trump being off of Twitter for example, as the entire tone of the platform and even Trump changed when he was banned... As you can see though, people who want to profit off his narcissism work hard to try to drive him back to wild public statements and towards posting on Twitter again. Profitmaking drives a lot of negative behavior and toxicity these days in people, and often the things that drive harmful behavior can't be fixed with antidepressants.
The mental health industry should be making serious moves in countering and calling out the negative aspects of psych manipulation like that more than ever.
There are good and bad therapists on the platform. I've been on and off BetterHelp as a client for a long time, probably since around 2016. Every year, I switch my therapist to see what different branches of psychology can do for me. I have had some genuinely awful therapists. But one can change them easily.
My wife had a bad first impression of BetterHelp, too, because her first therapist was seriously incompetent (offering a live-love-laugh type of therapy, as we called it). She later quite liked the platform when she found a good therapist.
Before the pandemic, the platform was good with refunds, too. They used to offer discounts, and I remember it was pretty easy to get a refund as well. During the pandemic, I wanted to take a break from therapy one month into my 3-month plan, but all they could offer was to pause my subscription, which worked for me.
I think it's easy to make the platform work for you, but it's probably more likely that you will have a bad time than not if you go with your randomly assigned therapist. I hope this additional context is helpful.
But as someone who has known several people diagnosed with NPD and bipolar. Kanye screams bipolar manic episode to me. The difference seems subtle until you've seen both close up.
Delusions of grandeur are a common symptom of bipolar mania. His diagnosis explains everything. If he's experiencing a manic episode now, it's hard to draw any conclusions at all about his baseline personality (which may in fact be narcissistic).
I think most narcissists only metaphorically think they're the next coming of christ, and most of them are too self-aware to say it even if they didn't.
If someone tells you they're Christ, or Napoleon, think schizophrenia or bipolar or manic-depressive before narcissism.
But his every passing whim and crisis is the axis of existence for his gibbering swarm of sucker-creatures.
He has a truly wonderful support system.
He used outsized power to take control of a public square, and has let previously disruptive individuals back into that public square. (And Twitter is a public square. Governments, celebrities, charities and more all use it to communicate with people, and news organizations report on the goings-on there.)
I disagree with assigning a Narcissistic collapse to Musk though, I don't think he fits the criteria laid out in the article. Kanye West may fit, but his other untreated mental illness makes that difficult to separate from the narcissism that drives some of his actions. trump, of course, fits NPD, but again I don't think he's collapsing right now. putin as well doesn't seem to be collapsing despite what's happening to the russian military in Ukraine.
While I wish I didn't have to hear anything else about Musk, he's an incredibly powerful person who can effect massive change in our society. Whether that's right or wrong depends on your personal views, but I personally believe that no one person should have that power unless it has been temporarily granted to them by a government in a time of great need.
whether you find it funny/ effective is up to you, though.
I know exactly 3 rich people. None famous.