No drug can calm depression, I almost took my own life last year – Owen Gee

Popular comedian Owen Gee has opened up on his battle with depression. According to the funny man, he almost took his own life last year.



In his words;
“I have had suicidal tendencies. Last year, I tried several things, but they did not work out. It was not because the ideas were bad, but the people I was working with just didn’t let them work out. Then anxiety and depression set in.
“It was then I realised that no drug could calm depression. There was hardly anyone I didn’t take. There was a time I was sleeping on drugs. There was a particular yellow tablet that, if I took it on Tuesday, on Wednesday I would only be prompted to barely wake up, eat and go back to sleep even before I finished eating. I would not wake up until Thursday.”
The comedian made this knownduring the unveiling of Live and not Die, an initiative aimed at stemming the tide of suicide in the country.