Foremost Nigerian rapper and musician, Oludemilade Martin Alejo, who is better known as YCee, has opened up about his struggle with mental health, revealing that he was diagnosed with a mental health condition in 2020.
Speaking in a recent episode of the Afropolitan podcast, YCee disclosed that the situation also contributed to his break from the music industry.
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The ‘Omo Alhaji’ crooner said he was hospitalised in London for three months after the diagnosis before later returning to Nigeria to continue treatment and therapy.
He said: “In 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 the hospital for about three months.”
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“I 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.
“It was up and down. Sometimes it is looking good, and sometimes, it just gets really dark,” he recalled.
The rapper added that he is now stable after treatment and therapy.
