{"id":443341,"date":"2026-01-30T16:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443341\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:27:08","slug":"stis-can-cause-mental-problems-ex-bbnaija-housemate-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443341\/","title":{"rendered":"STIs can cause mental problems &#8211; Ex-BBNaija housemate, Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faith Adewale, a medical doctor and former reality star, has claimed that sexually transmitted infections, STIs, can cause mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that neurosyphilis, the third stage of syphilis, is associated with mental problems.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that a lot of mental health patients are suffering from ailments caused by protracted STIs.<\/p>\n<p>Adewale featured in a recent episode of The Clarity Zone podcast co-hosted by Chinedu Ani Emmanuel, popularly known as Nedu Wazobia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know STIs can cause mental problems? There is something called neurosyphilis, the third stage of syphilis\u2026 There are many things that can lead to mental issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of the people having mental health problems, some of them have STIs. Neurosyphilis affects your brain. It affects the way you process things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OneJoblessBoy\/status\/2016798388201591123?t=jQgsuU6IdsD8_mhbceTtbA&amp;s=19\" rel=\"nofollow\">Video<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Faith Adewale, a medical doctor and former reality star, has claimed that sexually transmitted infections, STIs, can cause&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[183291,49,48,45084,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-443341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-bbnaija","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-faith","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443341","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=443341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}