{"id":236680,"date":"2025-10-24T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/236680\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:30:07","slug":"how-i-fell-into-depression-over-age-mix-up-by-yemi-alade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/236680\/","title":{"rendered":"How I fell into depression over age mix-up, by Yemi Alade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afrobeats singer Yemi Alade has opened up about her struggle with depression, triggered by a three-year period of misidentifying her age.<\/p>\n<p>In her interview with Chude Jideonwo, she recounted how she repeatedly told people she was 22, only to realise at 25 that she had been mistaken, leading to a few days of depression as her mind grappled with the reality.<\/p>\n<p>According to Alade, the revelation was a mental challenge and struggled to come to terms with it.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cThere was a time someone asked me my age, and I kept saying for three years I was 22. Then I realised I was 25 years old. I took out my phone and I did the mathematics. I was depressed for a few days. My mind wasn\u2019t taken into process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was mental, for three years I didn\u2019t know my right age\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Afrobeats singer Yemi Alade has opened up about her struggle with depression, triggered by a three-year period of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394,111881],"class_list":{"0":"post-236680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth","13":"tag-yemi-alade"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}