I was depressed, used to smoke – Toyin Abraham opens up on life challenges

<p>Popular Nollywood actress and producer, Toyin Abraham has opened up on life challenges that led to her rediscovering herself.</p>, <p>Toyin in an interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo, said she fell into depression sometime in her life and had to seek the help of a counsellor.</p>, <p>Recounting her experience, Toyin revealed that being depressed made her abandon her family and led her into smoking cigarettes which is unacceptable in her Christian home.</p>, <p>The 39-year-old actress said, “At some time in my life my manager had to get me a counsellor because I was depressed but lived in denial. I was not happy and very scared of life.</p>, <p>“It was that bad that I thought of swimming or jumping from the third mainland bridge and hoping someone will save me.</p>, <p>“I confided in people and they used it against me, I had fear of the unknown, my thought filled with negative things.</p>, <p>“It was hard for me to trust people then because the people I had around me didn’t know how to keep things secret.</p>, <p>“I am from a Christian home but had to avoid them because I started smoking cigarettes.</p>, <p>“I detached myself from my family because I thought I was going to die soon and didn’t want them to miss me.”</p>, <p>She, however, took responsibility for her life after she got a new manager and a counsellor and has since continued to soar higher in her life and career.</p>, <p>“I had to change everybody around me, had a different mentality to rediscover myself.</p>, <p>“When you’re depressed you don’t know what you’re capable of doing, Immediately I overcame all of that, I redesigned my life to be my best version.</p>, <p>“I got over my fears with the help of my manager and counsellor. You have to go through fire to have the finest things,” the actress concluded.</p>