A Nigerian lady based in the UK has shared on her TikTok page, her mother’s responses after she told her she was depressed.
Her mother who didn’t fully understand the concept of depression, told her she was only hungry and not depressed.
According to the lady she had reached out to her mother about her persistent feeling of sadness hoping to get some advice.
However, her mother blamed the way she felt on hunger, promising her that the feeling would go away once she ate.
Her message to her daughter read;
“I don’t give birth to depressed children
It’s your enemy that is depressed
You’re just hungry, your stomach is hot, and there’s jollof rice in the fridge.”
While some netizens found her mother’s responses funny, others shared that the jollof rice could really take the depression away.
Below are some of the comments;
@precious: “She doesn’t get me” I mumbled as I put the jollof rice in the microwave
@ejy: ‘That’s not how it works’ I thought as I shoveled a spoon of jollof rice into my mouth
@Justin: I mean if there’s Jollof rice at home, I don’t see why you are depressed though.
@Lxxn: Don’t disrespect the healing tendency of jollof rice, I mean it’s jollof oh
