{"id":178333,"date":"2025-06-12T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178333\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:05:10","slug":"prayer-is-the-only-key-kwabena-kwabena-on-healing-from-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178333\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Prayer is the only key’ \u2013 Kwabena Kwabena on healing from depression"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Musician, <\/a>Musician, Kwabena Kwabena once suffered severe depression<\/p>\n

Ghanaian Highlife artiste Kwabena Kwabena has shed light on a deeply personal chapter of his life, revealing his struggle with severe depression and the transformative journey that followed. Speaking in an interview with Doreen Avio on Daybreak Hitz, the musician described moments so dark they nearly silenced his career and spirit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll share this to inspire every individual out there who\u2019s going through any form of depression or any situation that has actually gotten you to a point where you feel like giving up. Yes, I must confess, there was a period in my life when I went through a serious moment of depression.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the singer, the experience pushed him into behaviors he later regretted\u2014especially online, where he posted things that he now views with disbelief.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery serious. I mean, those who are close to me know. I went through it to the extent that certain posts that I made\u2026 Today, I look at them and ask myself, \u2018Oh my God, did I make such a post?\u2019\u201d Though the experience was harrowing, it also offered clarity. Kwabena Kwabena said that surviving depression helped him gain a deeper understanding of life and of himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople also read all kinds of meanings into how depression distorted my appearance a little bit. It affected how I looked, because I have videos and photos from those days, and when I compare them to recent ones, it gives me a clear understanding of what I\u2019ve been through\u2014and what depression does.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the heart of his recovery, he said, was a force more powerful than any treatment: prayer. He credits his mother\u2019s unwavering spiritual support with lifting him out of despair.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will encourage everybody out there that the key to getting out of that situation is only one thing\u2014and that is prayer. On that note, I would like to say a big thank you to the woman that carried me\u2014my mother. My mother has been a great pillar behind me in terms of prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe would call me every morning and ask if I had prayed. So, there\u2019s a song on my EP called \u2018Enso Nyame Y\u025b\u2019. That song actually tells the whole story about everything I\u2019ve been through in life, and how you can always hand everything over to God\u2014because in His time, He will make things beautiful,\u201d Kwabena Kwabena further stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Musician, Kwabena Kwabena once suffered severe depression Ghanaian Highlife artiste Kwabena Kwabena has shed light on a deeply…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-178333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114670307013984775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}