{"id":161896,"date":"2025-06-06T03:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T03:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/161896\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T03:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T03:24:11","slug":"gardening-and-cooking-helped-me-through-depression-kojo-cue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/161896\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardening and cooking helped me through depression \u2013 Kojo Cue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kojo <\/a>Kojo Cue has shared therapeutic activities that helped him cope with depression<\/p>\n

Ghanaian rapper Kojo Cue has revealed some activities he engaged in which served as a form of therapy while he was dealing with depression.<\/p>\n

Speaking during Joy Showbiz Roundtable discussion, the “Rich Dad Poor Dad” rapper shared that he turned to activities such as gardening, cooking, and travelling as forms of therapy during a difficult period in his life.<\/p>\n

According to Kojo Cue, gardening and cooking were helpful because they required his full attention and helped take his mind off the negative thoughts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI picked up gardening. It was really helpful. I also learned to cook. I learned how to cook because cooking and gardening are things that when you\u2019re doing, they require your full attention. They require you to be present, to be focused on what it is you\u2019re doing,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

The rapper explained that one of the hardest parts of dealing with depression is handling the feeling of time dragging slowly, hence stressing that keeping busy helped him feel better.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realised that the biggest battle when you\u2019re going through any of these episodes is time. Because once you are able to spend enough time not worrying about it, I think your body, your mind starts to readjust,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Kojo Cue also mentioned that changing his environment played a big role in his healing process. <\/p>\n

According to him, travelling outside the country gave him the chance to see new things and discover new interests.<\/p>\n

\u201cChange of scenery was super helpful. Just any activity that captures your attention and puts you in the moment, anything that puts you in a place where things are new so that you are kind of finding new interests and exploring new things. You have to do things that can help you get out of your head. Because when you get stuck in your head, that\u2019s when you make up scenarios. We are creatives. We create things out of nothing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As a creative person, he explained that the mind can sometimes create false stories that feel real, especially when you\u2019re going through emotional stress.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll take one thing that\u2019s happening to us and we\u2019ll make up like 30 different scenarios and that may not even be what is actually happening on the ground. And sometimes when you\u2019re creating those things, it can feel like super real to you even though it\u2019s just you imagining things,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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