Amanda Bynes Mental Illness Update [VIDEO]: Drake Finds Amanda's Twitter Obsession With Him "Weird and Disturbing"; Are Schizophrenia Symptoms To Blame?

Amanda Bynes Mental Illness Update: Drake Responds to Amanda's Twitter

Amanda Bynes' Twitter has been a source of strange tweets which some say are connected to mental illness and schizophrenia symptoms.  Bynes has tweeted about wanting a million dollars for having her "mind read and privacy stolen" and other things indicative of paranoia, which is a schizophrenia symptom.

She also made many contradictory tweets about Drake, the Started From the Bottom Rapper.  She called Drake both "ugly" and "gorgeous" and said he looked like he had Downs syndrome.  She famously said that "I want @Drake to murder my vagina"

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Drake responded to the Amanda Bynes twitter issue in a new magazine report, saying:

I don't even know who that is doing that or what that's about. If that is her, I guess it's a little weird and disturbing. It's obviously a behavioral pattern that is way bigger than me. Whoever is behind it, whether it's her or somebody else, they know people are paying attention so they keep it going.

Kpopstarz previously reported:

Amanda Bynes has showed erratic behavior for a while now, particularly with her Twitter account.  Amanda Bynes repeated tweeted about Drake and called many people ugly.  These strange tweets may have been related to mental illness symptoms of schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is a complex mental illness with many symptoms.  Positive symptoms are delusions and hallucinations.  Negative symptoms include blunted or flat affect, or lack of emotional expression; avolition, which is lack of motivation; and anhedonia, or lack of interest.  Atypical antipsychotics are the first-line pharmaceutical treatment, but they are only able to treat positive symptoms.

Many people with mental illness embrace the idea that symptoms can be an expression of deep truths.  Psychiatrist R.D. Laing, who worked with people with schizophrenia symptoms, said: "Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death."

Nick Cannon is friends with Amanda Bynes, having co-starred with her in the past.  He talked in an open letter about how Amanda Bynes mental illness symptoms have their root in the difficult life of fame: "When a person is told all of their life that they are awesome, the best, the greatest and they are catered to every moment of the day. Imagine being the breadwinner in your household before you can even drive. Imagine you parents, teachers, and employers NEVER telling you NO. Anything you ask for or want, the world gives you, at some point you are bound to self-destruct. I call this "access to excess"."

Nick Cannon described the factors at play in a breakdown that could be contributing to Amanda's difficulties: "It goes back to that old saying; "Too much of anything is bad for anyone". Whether it's fame, money, sex, drugs, attention. It's all a dangerous addiction. When there is no balance in your life a person will always become victim to their reality or lack thereof. The question is, when this destruction occurs, who is there to help put back the pieces. What do you do when you have no solid support system? When you feel like your friends are talking behind your back. When you feel like your co-workers are jealous and out to competitively sabotage you. When you feel your family has turned your back on you. When you feel like you parents have a conditional appreciation for you and only really love your money. You find yourself alone in that dark hole. Then you have to rely on your own devices once again in this vulnerable state. You become paranoid, frantic, manic, irrational because you can bounce your thoughts or ideas off of anyone anymore. Your reality no longer allows you to reason with the world, so you try to break through to get back to what you think is common ground."

Nick Cannon had a harsh assessment for the media in the Amanda Bynes case: "Then enters the media, or what I like to call the ultimate magnifier. It's like if you have a delicate piece of tissue under the sun, that tissue is under INTENSE heat with nowhere to escape but once you place a magnifying glass over that tissue, it's bound to instantly burn up in flames. This is what I believe happens to many people in the public eye and we all sit back and judge these people for our own entertainment. We say things like, " I'm glad I'm not famous ", "Celebrities are Crazy", "See what fame and money does to people". And most of the time your assumptions and accusations maybe accurate but also inappropriate."