Rapper YCee don open up about im mental health struggle, saying dem diagnose am with mental health condition for 2020. Di Jagaban hitmaker yarn for Afropolitan podcast say di diagnosis make am leave music for small time.
YCee explain say im dey London for six months during lockdown, and im spend about three months dey go hospital come back. After dat, im return to Nigeria to continue treatment because of visa wahala.
For Lagos, im continue with medication, therapy, and many times dem hospitalize am. Im describe di six-year period as hard and inconsistent. But now, im say im dey stable and for better place after getting di care and support wey im need.
“In 2020, I got diagnosed with a mental health condition during the lockdown. I was in London for six months and was in-and-out of hospital for about three months,” im tok. “I had to return to Nigeria to continue treatment because of the type of Visa I was on. Coming back to Lagos and getting into the system of mental health in Nigeria, it was a very very long six years. I was on medication and had to be hospitalised several times and still dealing with therapies.”
Im add say: “It was up and down. Sometimes it is looking good and sometimes, it just gets really dark.”
