A few years ago Nollywood actor Tonto Dikeh revealed she had battled severe depression even attempting suicide.
It is a disease that affects many especially in the public eye and now rapper Eva Alordiah
is also opening about her depression. The rapper who covers the latest
issue of Guardian Life Weekly magazine in which she is described as
the “Last Femcee Standing”.
Depression is going to happen to each of us at one point
or the other in our lives. It is important that we are having these
conversations about it; instead of shying away from it like we do every
other topic that scares us. How I dealt, and continue to deal with,
depression; Firstly, I understand that I have a choice. I am powerful
enough to choose whether to be happy or sad, whether to create or not
create, whether to be filled with gratitude or to complain.
She added,
The dichotomies of good and evil, light and dark, would
always exist for as long as the world does and as a human being you are
responsible for what’s going on with you at every point. I have found
that depression can become the excuse to not create. Instead of sitting
in the chair of how badly I might be feeling, I garner strength enough
not to lean in the emotional rut too long that I forget my ultimate
purpose. I pray. That’s what I do. It is a calling forth by faith of
those things which are not as though they were. It is an expression of a
positive attitude and depression fades away when that is present.