Chance The Rapper says he has had “a lot of dark days” while living with post-traumatic stress disorder.
“I saw my friend killed in front of me when I was 19. I seen people I didn't know get killed too,” Chance shared in a new episode of Peace of Mind with Taraji. “You become kind of, like, numb to it.
“It stays with you, you know what I mean? And you don't realize until later — like, it have lasting effects and stuff.”
Chance admitted mental health wasn’t something his family talked about.
“Wellness wasn't something that we knew, you know? There's probably a ton of situations where people, you know, we just wrote them off as like crazy, or like they was tweakin' – but they were actually going through a chronic mental health disorder,” the rap star recalled.
“I feel like it’s something that we're all … we’re starting to be like, ‘OK, yeah, health is beyond just our physical.’”