I was diagnosed with mental illness – YCee recounts

Rapper, YCee has shared details of a difficult chapter in his life, revealing that a mental health diagnosis in 2020 led to years of treatment and contributed to his absence from the music scene

Speaking on the Afropolitan podcast, the rapper recounted how he began battling the condition during the COVID-19 lockdown while living in London.

The ‘Omo Alhaji’ hitmaker explained that after spending months in and out of hospitals in the United Kingdom, he returned to Nigeria where he continued treatment, medication 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 hospital for about three months.

“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.