Jeezy revealed that he previously suffered from depression, but didn’t even realize it because his mental illness went undiagnosed for nearly 10 years.
The trap pioneer pulled up tamron hall show for his promotion on Monday (October 16). adversity sales He has published a memoir and opened up about his own mental health struggles.
“I learned that weakness is strength,” he said. “I thought maybe there was something wrong with me because I thought I was from a poor background, and this is just the way it is. When I started to understand the words to represent, I understood and began to grab the tools. [and] I started to get better.
“I started a journey, and that’s why I’m expressing it and putting it in my book, because I didn’t know that I was depressed for about eight years of my life.”
Jeezy went on to explain that he felt “numb” at times after losing so many people close to him.
“When you wake up, you just want to go back to eternal sleep, don’t you?” he added. “And I was leaning into my vices. And that’s what street life does to you. You know what I’m saying, right? 200, 300, 400 people. Losing something like it’s gone forever just leaves you numb.
“And I just couldn’t control my emotions and was wondering why. I’m grateful for my kids, but there was a time when I was just cold. That was around the time.”
Check out the interview below.
Snowman previously opened up about his battle with depression in an interview. people In August, he recalled the “brief” moment he almost took his own life.
The Atlanta rapper explained that as a teenager, after years of dealing drugs and stealing cars, he entered the Youth Challenge program in Fort Stewart, Georgia.
The nine-month program taught him “structure” and helped him develop “focus,” but dark thoughts began to creep in as he neared the end, he said.
“I remember standing there and saying to myself, ‘Hey, what if I don’t figure this out when I get home?’ Because I don’t want to end up like my friends,” he recalled. . “My friends became drug addicts and got killed and all sorts of things happened.
“So, all that was going on in my head. It was just for a moment, I think it was at least 10 minutes, and I actually thought about jumping into the water. I had suicidal thoughts. I had never held her, but [thought]”Well, damn, I don’t have to deal with this if I just jump in the water. I don’t have to go home. I don’t have to do any of these things.”
But Jeezy said he didn’t go through with it because something inside him told him: You have to be strong. he has to go home. When he left his youth program, he believed he was “ready for anything.”
Meanwhile, the 46-year-old filed for divorce from his wife Jeannie Mai last month after two-and-a-half years of marriage, claiming the marriage was “irretrievably broken down”.
The former couple reportedly still live under the same roof at their home in Georgia, where they have one-year-old daughter Monaco.
