Gucci Mane Reveals Bipolar Disorder & Schizophrenia Diagnoses

In his new memoir, Episodes, Gucci Mane opened up about his psychological well being diagnoses, revealing he was identified with bipolar dysfunction and schizophrenia.

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This week, the Atlanta rapper and his spouse, Keyshia Ka’oir, sat down with The Breakfast Membership, the place she talked in regards to the methods she offers together with her husband’s schizophrenia so the general public doesn’t discover out he’s having an episode.

“I take his apps off his cellphone,” Ka’oir started whereas explaining her course of. “Very first thing I do, I delete Instagram. I delete every little thing. Even when I acquired to vary his password, I’m altering it as a result of I don’t want the general public to know he’s having an episode.”

She continued, “You notice you’d by no means find out about some other episode since Sept. 13 as a result of I management that. You’re not occurring Instagram, you’re not occurring Twitter, it’s deleted. I simply management every little thing at house. Now, earlier than the episodes come, I catch it. In order that’s why he hasn’t had one other one

The mannequin and entrepreneur went on to explain simply how unhealthy his episodes get, explaining how Gucci Mane acts when he’s going by means of one.

“Now, earlier than the episodes come, I catch it,” Ka’oir defined. “In order that’s why he hasn’t had one other one. And the way you catch that’s he doesn’t communicate to you. He needs to be left alone. He don’t eat. He doesn’t sleep. Textual content messages. There’s a interval after every phrase. And I’m like, ‘You’re going by means of an episode. You’re sick.’ ‘No, I’m not. Ain’t nothing improper with me. Why do you assume that?’ ‘You’re not talking to me.’ ‘Effectively, there’s nothing to speak about.’ I mentioned, ‘Effectively, that’s not the way you communicate to your spouse.’ And I’m like, ‘You’re sick.’ And we snap out of it proper then.”

Charlamagne Tha God referenced a latest interview with Kim Kardashian, who mentioned on Name Her Daddy that in her marriage to Ye (fka Kanye West), he would give away luxurious automobiles to pals whereas going by means of a psychological well being disaster. Gucci admitted that he would do the identical, however with jewellery.

“I gave away jewellery,” he started. “Jewellery prices a lot, I might give my pals jewellery. They knew I wasn’t nicely, however they’d take it.”

The rapper went on to elucidate that his pals making the most of him in that approach led to them being minimize off as soon as he made it out of jail.

“They know one thing occurring with me, however they’d take it,” he defined. “Once I acquired out of jail, I minimize off all my pals. I’m like, ‘Rattling, they was taking benefit.’”

Gucci additionally opened up in regards to the notorious Twitter (now X) rant he went on in 2013, the place he referred to as out Drake, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross and others within the music business. The rapper attributed it to being unwell, saying that the incident weighed “tremendous heavy” on him till he was in a position to apologize to everybody.

“I used to be tremendous embarrassed and damage by the issues I mentioned as a result of I wasn’t nicely then, proper? So, then, I acquired locked up. So, a whole lot of these individuals who I used to be saying stuff to, I used to be like, ‘they ain’t by no means gonna mess with me no extra,’” Gucci Mane defined. “So even after I acquired out three years later…I apologized to [Rick] Ross, Drake, Nicki [Minaj], like all of them those who accepted my apologies, they don’t understand it’s like a weight off my shoulders.”

Gucci Mane’s memoir, Episodes, which was launched on October 14, was co-written by music journalist and writer Kathy Iandoli. The guide, which chronicles his life and psychological well being points, can be accompanied by a 23-track album of the identical identify.