Method Man Finally Opens Up About How He's Dealt With Living With Depression For Years
'It never really goes away, it never really goes away,' the 'Protect Ya Neck' rapper said.
by Shanelle Genai · The RootMethod Man opened up about his mental health journey and struggles with depression. Sitting down with fellow rapper Fat Joe on his newly launched series on Starz, “Fat Joe Talks,” the Wu-Tang rapper shined a light on the fact that he’s been dealing with depression “from time to time” and that it’s something that’s been plaguing him off and on over the years.
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He went on to add how important it is for people to check up on each other and reach out citing that it may be the very thing that person needs to hear as you never know what others may be going through:
“The point I’m trying to make is every now and then when you get a thought like, ‘Damn, I wonder what this person’s doing,’ act on it. Call them, see how they doing or find some way to get in contact with them. It never hurts. You have no idea how much that could mean to them. Because you know I go through these bouts and certain shit.
It never really goes away, it never really goes away. Like I said, I have bouts with it and things.
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He added: “The illest one is when you do these displays as a cry for help and people — some see it and just feel like its a facade or I don’t know how they take it. But there’s a lot of times where those people don’t get help.”
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Meth’s revelation echoes that which he shared with Men’s Health Magazine in August 2023, where he explained that he started battling depression and unresolved PTSD when it took a hold of him during the height of his success in the 1990s.
“It went from this childhood joy to this euphoric feeling of celebrity to feeling inadequate and not good enough. That’s where the depression and stuff came in,” he told the magazine. “And not even knowing that I’ve been depressed since I was a youngster. A lot of PTSD I had never dealt with before started resurfacing.”
How Meth learned to deal with it was by changing his social circle and working on his internal mental state and becoming his own “biggest fan.”
“It had nothing to do with other people. It was just me. ‘What can I control?’ That’s what I did; I took control after that. I stopped valuing other people’s opinions, and instead of being my biggest critic, I became my biggest fan,” he said.