{"id":36642,"date":"2022-12-13T22:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T22:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health"},"modified":"2022-12-14T00:10:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T00:10:58","slug":"musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health","title":{"rendered":"Musician Bosco seeks to raise awareness about mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Musician Bosco of Welokhamu fame is using his own battle with depression to help fellow youths as part of intervention against the surge in suicide in Malawi. The initiative comes hot on the heels of his song release on the same.<\/p>\n

According to Bosco, he will be hosting sessions on mental health aimed at curtailing the widespread normality of regarding suicide as an option to every obstacle.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, we\u2019ll acknowledge to the youth that there are situations in life that would really evoke suicide thoughts in someone. We realise that living in denial won\u2019t solve this issue. So, that will be our first step,\u201d He said<\/p>\n

According to Bosco, this approach will help the youths to open up and share their problems. \u201cWhen we despise the reasons that compel people to kill themselves, we make them shy to open up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cAs a person who once went thro depression and came out free, I am doing it to tell people the channels I used to free myself.\u201d \u201cCurrently, I don\u2019t have a specified place but as long as two or more people I can talk to are there, I am doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

His initiative comes at a time Malawi is battling with suicide cases. Police statistics show that over 200 people have committed suicide this year alone.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Malawi<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. Musician Bosco of Welokhamu fame is using his own battle with depression to help fellow youths as part of intervention against the surge in suicide in Malawi. The initiative comes hot on the heels of his song release on the same. According to Bosco, he will be hosting sessions on mental health […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-36642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"\nMusician Bosco seeks to raise awareness about mental health - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Musician Bosco of Welokhamu fame is using his own battle with depression to help fellow youths as part of intervention a ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Musician Bosco seeks to raise awareness about mental health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Musician Bosco of Welokhamu fame is using his own battle with depression to help fellow youths as part of intervention a ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-13T22:53:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-14T00:10:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959452.99.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Musician Bosco seeks to raise awareness about mental health\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-13T22:53:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-14T00:10:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health\"},\"wordCount\":243,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959452.99.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health\",\"name\":\"Musician Bosco seeks to raise awareness about mental health - Malawi\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959452.99.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-13T22:53:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-14T00:10:58+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Musician Bosco of Welokhamu fame is using his own battle with depression to help fellow youths as part of intervention a ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959452.99.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959452.99.jpg\",\"width\":750,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"Musician Bosco seeks to raise awareness about mental health\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Musician Bosco seeks to raise awareness about mental health\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\",\"name\":\"Malawi\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Musician Bosco seeks to raise awareness about mental health - Malawi","description":"Musician Bosco of Welokhamu fame is using his own battle with depression to help fellow youths as part of intervention a ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Musician Bosco seeks to raise awareness about mental health","og_description":"Musician Bosco of Welokhamu fame is using his own battle with depression to help fellow youths as part of intervention a ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health","og_site_name":"Malawi","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-12-13T22:53:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-12-14T00:10:58+00:00","og_image":[{"width":750,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959452.99.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Musician Bosco seeks to raise awareness about mental health","datePublished":"2022-12-13T22:53:21+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-14T00:10:58+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health"},"wordCount":243,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959452.99.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Malawi","Malawi"],"articleSection":["all news","community"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health","name":"Musician Bosco seeks to raise awareness about mental health - Malawi","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959452.99.jpg","datePublished":"2022-12-13T22:53:21+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-14T00:10:58+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Musician Bosco of Welokhamu fame is using his own battle with depression to help fellow youths as part of intervention a ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959452.99.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959452.99.jpg","width":750,"height":400,"caption":"Musician Bosco seeks to raise awareness about mental health"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/musician-bosco-seeks-to-raise-awareness-about-mental-health#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Musician Bosco seeks to raise awareness about mental health"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/","name":"Malawi","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}