{"id":110792,"date":"2025-09-03T05:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/110792\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T05:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T05:33:09","slug":"charly-boy-speaks-on-mental-health-struggles-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/110792\/","title":{"rendered":"Charly Boy speaks on mental health struggles, awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musician and media personality, Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa, popularly known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/areafada1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Charly Boy<\/a>, has opened up about his personal struggles with mental health.<\/p>\n<p>The 75-year-old revealed this in a heartfelt Instagram post on Tuesday, stating that the three-week Europe trip which later turned into ten days, was to reboot and recharge himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNa so I come japa go Europe go visit my bro Dr Alban. I was to spend three weeks recharging and rebooting. U can\u2019t imagine, only after 10 days body begin scratch me, like say I forget smtin for Nigeria, the same environment wey dey give me sleepless nights sometimes. Couldn\u2019t even do 2wks complete I don run come bk,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Charly Boy admitted that sometimes life could feel like \u2018jazz\u2019 and stressed the importance of discussing mental health openly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut here\u2019s the truth, depression na real matter. I was lucky enough to take a break, step away and come back refreshed, holding on to the Oyibo breeze wey bin blow me. But how many people get that kind of privilege?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further noted that not everyone had the privilege to escape their struggles, forcing them to be \u2018stuck\u2019 with it.<\/p>\n<p>He finally advocated for more openness around mental health, reminding fans that it is not a weakness or taboo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to start talking about these things. Mental health no be joke, e no be weakness, e no be taboo. Na reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Area Fada fit admit say sometimes e dey choke, you too no need to pretend. Speak up, breathe, find your way back. Life go still test us, but make we no let am break us.\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Musician and media personality, Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has opened up about his personal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[53540,102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-110792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-charly-boy","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-mentalhealth","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}