This week in Opinion, mental health was discussed. The guests were mental health experts and among them, the actor and comedian Albano Bogdo.
The latter talked about his experience with anxiety and depression. He said he has suffered from anxiety since he was a teenager.
"I have suffered from anxiety since my early teens. I don't know, I had anxiety for no reason, sitting in class or at home. My heart rate increased, I was filled with cold sweat. I felt like I was going to die. Out of ignorance like me, like the doctors who were in Saranda, we went to hospitals and they did heart and thyroid tests. They led me to a dead end because they didn't know what to say. They measured my heartbeat and it was 140-150, they told me it's not normal."
Later, the actor came to Tirana, where the same thing happened again.
"When I came to Tirana, the same thing happened again. I was sick, I used to go to the heart doctor. Until one day, they barely took me to a psychologist. Hardly in the sense that I told him I don't have anything in my mind, I have it in my heart. It was unrelated with shame. I talked to that psychologist, she was a woman, she made me worse. She gave me some herbs... At that time, I had passed into panic disorder. I no longer had anxiety. I was starting to panic, I was getting really bad."
The actor recalls that on 3-4 occasions he left half the performances of "2XL Apartment".
"As soon as you mentioned my name, instead of going on stage, I would leave the building, run away, run away to the hospital."
Albano Bogdo said that a pharmacist discovered the disease. After that, he said that he immediately went to visit, where the psychiatrist told him what illness he was suffering from.
“Një farmaciste. Kam qenë në shtëpi, ka qenë verë. Një farmaciste, padashje, sepse kishte të bijën që vuante të njëjtën gjë. Më tha: 'Ti ke panik, duhet të shkosh në një psikiatër'. I kam hipur taksisë menjëherë, kam shkuar tek “Pesa”, nuk e vrisja mendjen. Kam qenë aq keq saqë nuk e vrisja mendjen. Le të thonin jo është "i çmendur"… Psikiatria më dha një kokërr sa të qetësohesha për atë natë. U qetësova, u vizitova. Mu duk sikur u shërova nja 3 muaj. Vazhdoi prapë, të rikthehet”, tha Bogdo.
Në një moment gjatë intervistës, teksa flitej për shenja paralajmëruese të shëndetit mendor, Albano shtoi:
"I've been taking medication for depression all these years. Two years ago, for no reason at all, no change in diet, no medication, nothing - I gained 69 kilos, for no reason, in 3 months. Then, all of a sudden, I started I was picking myself up again, for no reason at all."
