This is the reason why Kanye acts like, uh, Kanye

And on the third day god created… Kanye. Of: ‘A visit to my mind is like a visit to the Hermès factory. That shit is real,’ as he prefers to say himself. We all know: Kanye is quite a remarkable man. His mental health has also been a topic of discussion before. Then he takes an award away from Taylor again, then he makes an extremely strange statement, then suddenly he’s in the hospital with a mental breakdown; never a dull moment in his life.

But do we also know why the man of Kim K. has such outbursts? I initially didn’t, and maybe you don’t either, so it’s time for some clarification. Kanye has a bipolar disorder and takes medication for it. In an interview with David Letterman (for the new Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, which comes online tomorrow and I must see by the way) he talks extensively about it in the hope of reducing the taboo on mental issues.

‘If you don’t take medication every day to keep yourself stable, there’s a chance you’ll have such an outburst. They can be so intense that you have to go to the hospital,’ says the rapper. During an ‘attack’ Kanye also becomes paranoid. ‘Everyone – for me at least, because others have different experiences – is an actor. Everything is a conspiracy. I get the idea that the government has placed chips in my head and that I am being listened to.’

Just for context: the rapper has been restrained multiple times in the past in a confused state, pumped full of medication and roughly laid on the bed. He himself calls it mean and primitive to deal with it that way. ‘It’s a health problem that has a huge taboo attached to it. It’s just like a sprained ankle, but then you have sprained brains. If someone has a sprained ankle, you don’t force them to do more. With us, people do all sorts of things, which only makes it worse.’

I don’t know about you, but I find it quite enlightening that someone with such celebrity status is breaking the path to discussing mental issues. In the same Netflix series, it seems Anyway, take a look for yourself. And can we just talk about the fact that Ellen always precisely adjusts her clothing color palette to Kim? I think that's genius. by the way also to talk about the sexual harassment by her mother’s ex-boyfriend.

So, I don’t know what you all are doing, but Netflix, I’m ready for My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. And Kanye, I suddenly understand you a bit better. The greatest creatives are often the biggest crazies, aren’t they?