Nigerian singer and rapper, Oludemilade Martin Alejo, popularly known as YCee, has opened up about his struggle with mental health, revealing that he was diagnosed with a mental health condition in 2020.<\/p>\n
Speaking in a recent episode of the Afropolitan podcast, YCee disclosed that the situation also contributed to his break from the music industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The \u2018Omo Alhaji\u2019 crooner said he was hospitalised in London for three months after the diagnosis before later returning to Nigeria to continue treatment and therapy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cI 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was up and down. Sometimes it is looking good and sometimes, it just gets really dark,\u201d he recalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The rapper added that he is now stable after treatment and therapy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigerian singer and rapper, Oludemilade Martin Alejo, popularly known as YCee, has opened up about his struggle with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394,270885],"class_list":["post-759962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-ycee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759962","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=759962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}