Despite all of the glitz and glamour associated with the entertainment business, only very few practitioners who are in the industry can lay claim to
Despite all of the glitz and glamour associated with the entertainment business, only very few practitioners who are in the industry can lay claim to actually having a happy life behind all that façade. Many are unfortunately miserable and depressed even to the point of committing suicide.
But despite it all, most have been able to overcome their depressive state either by use of medication, through meditation or through many other readily available means such as religion, psychiatry evaluation etc. One of the many who have succeeded in breaking out of his depressive state is music executive and business man, Ubi Franklin. Despite his apparent success and his recent venture into philanthropy, not many knew the Triple MG record label boss was a depressed soul.
Now separated from his former wife, actress, Lilian Esoro, whom he married in a very lavish ceremony about two years ago, the celebrity father of one, has chosen to share his journey through depression and how he was able to beat it, in the hope that his story will help someone who is currently depressed and at a cross road of what to do about it.
He took to his social media to pen his thoughts: “When you are happy, Satan will try to break your spirit. Don’t allow him. Pray! So yesterday as I was on the train to catch up with my meeting in Milan and was reminiscing on the events in my life in the last one year, as regards ‘where, what and why’. This story I am about to share with you now just literally crossed through my thoughts, and I felt I could help someone with my testimony.
“It all started precisely from the month of June 20th 2016 to March 2017 or thereabout. I wss quite depressed, badly and it became so bad that my life began to deteriorate, so much so that I didn’t eat or sleep too much, thus making my family become so scared. I became a regular patient at the hospital, treating one ailment or the other.
“I will show up at events looking lost and drained but I had to pretend that all was ok. I bought the car of my dreams thinking that would make the depression go away but it didn’t and to my dismay, it increased. I finished paying for my mortgage but the depression just increased. A few of my close friends gave me some advise to help lift my spirit but after a while, they stopped taking my calls. One of them asked if what was making me depressed would matter a year from that time.
“One night I was driving home with suicidal thoughts but all I kept wondering what would become of my son. I got home and started to act funny. My security guard had put on the generator and I screamed at him to switch it off. I remained in the house all by myself in the dark with everything falling apart despite having money, food, a roof over my head. I didn’t think I would see the next day.
“I kept hearing baby’s voice saying, ‘Daddy don’t go, I don’t know you yet.’ I wept. My brothers and sisters, that was it, that was my turning point. I slept off and the following day, went to church. I hadn’t been in church for 8 weeks because I felt God had forgotten all about me. While in church, I was still nursing this crazy thought. The topic for that day was ‘Surviving the pressure’ as preached by Pastor Paul Adefarasin.
“I wept all through the service because it the message was like a father scolding his son and bringing him closer to reality. I realized that when one gets comfortable with ones’ past, one mistakes one’s place of transition for destination and end up settling there. Trust m when I say it was tough.
“But I thank God that today I have faith in him and just like the bible said in Romans 8:28, ‘Everything worketh together for good to them that love God and are called according to his purpose.’ I suddenly realized that I was carrying a baggage and all I needed to do was to drop the baggage and pray myself out of depression.
“Brothers and sisters, I want to strongly admonish you today that no matter the circumstance, no matter the hell or high water you are going through, pause for a minute and pray and you will know that this is just a phase and it will pass. Following Jesus is transformational and will cause you to emerge. If you are not made, it is because you did not follow. Don’t ever let the devil take your joy, focus on God and never give up on him.”
