all i know is i was mega ****ed up before i got medication/therapy so i find it really hard to buy into its bad reputation. and it sounds like you didn't have a mental illness at all, actually, but i don't think what tymps is describing is normal or healthy at all
Does it have a bad reputation? It's constantly praised from what I see.
Real talk 4 is lowkey the album that turned me against Beyonce. Up until then I'd been a casual fan and enjoyed her work. I liked B'Day and Sasha Fierce. I think it was because she took a drastic turn with her direction, i've never been an R&B fan and the album just seemed too boring for me.
Looking back though, I actually like the album strangely enough and self-titled replaced it as the album that I hate.