East Coast Urban radio host Thandolwethu speaks on her struggle with depression

East Coast Urban radio host, Thandolwethu  took to the company’s website to highlight her struggle with depression.

She opened up about this subject as she was asked a question in regards to HHP’s death.

How do you respond to a person who thinks that now HHP’s death has been linked to depression, everyone is now claiming to have depression? she was asked

When people dismiss the severity of depression with a very cold, “Hai we all have problems”, you respond with love and slight jealousy. Love because we are all ignorant about something in our lives until we are educated about it or directly affected by it. Slight jealousy because that person has never been so sad, they just see darkness. That they keep hearing a distant voice telling them to just end their lives.

How the voices of their family push them deeper into darkness with comments about how it’s an ancestral issue, next thing you’re becoming iSangoma or they call you moody, and all you want to do is scream “Something is wrong”, but you can’t because you have no light and no voice. Jealous because they’ve never had to look into the eyes of a person they love and it’s blank. When someone who is so full of life from time to time will sit in one spot for days not, continue reading the whole interview here