Hiplife Artiste, Okyeame Kwame, has explained why many Artistes and Creatives turn to substance abuse. In an interview on Joy Prince, which was monitored by The Chronicle, Okyeame Kwame remarked that most creatives turn to drugs due to their reluctance to reflect deeply on their thoughts and deeds, which would have allowed them to learn valuable lessons.
“If you close your eyes and sit down for 10 seconds, immediately, all the problems you have in life will come into your brain. Because your brain is so smart that it’s always trying to solve your problem. So immediately you keep quiet, all your problems come up.
“That is why people are always trying to watch a movie, always trying to read a book, trying to talk to somebody, trying to have sex, trying to drink alcohol, and trying to smoke something to divert their brains from dealing with their problems.
“And that is the time when artistes are not willing to sit down quietly for their thoughts to punish them. But immediately they feel the problems come up, they take it, and then all the problems will go away because they have numbed their pain receptors…” he said.
Okyeame Kwame narrated his personal battle with depression and how he dealt with it by going into a meditative state for a year.
