{"id":271981,"date":"2026-01-30T13:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/271981\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:46:07","slug":"stis-can-cause-mental-problems-ex-bbnaija-housemate-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/271981\/","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":271982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[133028,35955,103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-271981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-bbnaija","9":"tag-faith","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mental-health","14":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}