{"id":27326,"date":"2025-05-07T17:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27326"},"modified":"2025-05-07T17:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:25:07","slug":"charlamagne-tha-gods-mental-health-tip-touch-grass-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27326","title":{"rendered":"Charlamagne Tha God\u2019s Mental Health Tip: Touch Grass, Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At The New York Times\u2019s Well festival, the radio host Charlamagne Tha God spoke about his and family members\u2019 struggles with depression.<\/p>\n

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Millions of boys are raised to view vulnerability as a sign of weakness.<\/p>\n

Charlamagne Tha God, speaking with the New York Times national politics reporter Astead Herndon at the Well Festival on Wednesday, had a message for the people who were raised like that: Throw out that way of thinking.<\/p>\n

Charlamagne, who was born Lenard McKelvey and is best known as a host of the popular radio show \u201cThe Breakfast Club,\u201d has become outspoken about his experiences with depression and anxiety.<\/p>\n

He said one of the most effective ways he had found to cope was meditation. Another is simple: He goes out to his lawn, takes his shoes off and walks through the grass.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople say that as a joke, like, \u2018Man, go touch grass,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cGo touch grass! And watch what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It hasn\u2019t been easy to be open, he said, but it has been worth it. Sometimes, he added, strangers approach him to say that because he talked about going to therapy, their husband or brother decided to do the same.<\/p>\n

That led to a realization, he said, that \u201cwhen you live your truth, nobody can use your truth against you \u2014 when you live your truth, you kind of just find a tribe that gives you more strength to continue doing the work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charlamagne said men, and especially Black men, did themselves and their loved ones no favors by keeping their struggles secret. The point is personal for Charlamagne. Only in 2018, when a cousin killed himself after attempting suicide several times before, did his own father tell him he had once attempted suicide.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember just thinking to myself, \u2018Wow, if you would have told me this years ago, then I would have known what that anxiety was I was experiencing. I would have known what those bouts of depression was I was experiencing,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I remember asking my mom, I said, \u2018Yo, you know Dad was going through all of this?\u2019 And she said to me, \u2018Yeah, I thought he was just playing crazy to get a check.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy point is,\u201d he continued, \u201cthere\u2019s no need for any of us to keep secrets from each other. If we was to tell each other what it is that we\u2019re going through \u2014 and even better, the things that we did to get through what we was going through \u2014 we would all do ourselves a big favor.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At The New York Times\u2019s Well festival, the radio host Charlamagne Tha God spoke about his and family members\u2019 struggles with depression.Millions of boys are raised to view vulnerability as a sign of weakness.Charlamagne Tha God, speaking with the New York Times national politics reporter Astead Herndon at the Well Festival on Wednesday, had a message for the people who were raised like that: Throw out that way of thinking.Charlamagne, who was born Lenard McKelvey and is best known as a host of the popular radio show \u201cThe Breakfast Club,\u201d has become outspoken about his experiences with depression and anxiety.He said one of the most effective ways he had found to cope was meditation. Another is simple: He goes out to his lawn, takes his shoes off and walks through the grass.\u201cPeople say that as a joke, like, \u2018Man, go touch grass,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cGo touch grass! And watch what happens.\u201dIt hasn\u2019t been easy to be open, he said, but it has been worth it. Sometimes, he added, strangers approach him to say that because he talked about going to therapy, their husband or brother decided to do the same.That led to a realization, he said, that \u201cwhen you live your truth, nobody can use your truth against you \u2014 when you live your truth, you kind of just find a tribe that gives you more strength to continue doing the work.\u201dCharlamagne said men, and especially Black men, did themselves and their loved ones no favors by keeping their struggles secret. The point is personal for Charlamagne. Only in 2018, when a cousin killed himself after attempting suicide several times before, did his own father tell him he had once attempted suicide.\u201cI remember just thinking to myself, \u2018Wow, if you would have told me this years ago, then I would have known what that anxiety was I was experiencing. I would have known what those bouts of depression was I was experiencing,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I remember asking my mom, I said, \u2018Yo, you know Dad was going through all of this?\u2019 And she said to me, \u2018Yeah, I thought he was just playing crazy to get a check.\u2019\u201d\u201cMy point is,\u201d he continued, \u201cthere\u2019s no need for any of us to keep secrets from each other. If we was to tell each other what it is that we\u2019re going through \u2014 and even better, the things that we did to get through what we was going through \u2014 we would all do ourselves a big favor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27328,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27329,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27326\/revisions\/27329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}