When Rickey Teetz was just a child, he witnessed firsthand the emotional trauma of his mother who suffered a nervous breakdown while raising a large family by herself in Montego Bay, St. James.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mother passed away after suffering a nervous breakdown from raising seven kids by herself and going through terrible poverty\u2026the stress was too much for her,\u201d Rickey Teetz shared.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0\u2018Lighters Up\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0artist\u2019s emotional trauma has translated into a soft spot for family members and friends that are mentally challenged.<\/p>\n In recent days, there has been a surge in the number of confrontations between mentally ill and police officers, often with fatal outcomes. That\u2019s why Rickey Teetz is making an appeal for the public to be more charitable in their thoughts and actions towards the less fortunate, especially the mentally ill.<\/p>\n \u201cMental illness is a sickness that needs understanding and care, and we can\u2019t ignore the mentally ill and homeless, they are humans too,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cLife is hard, but we can\u2019t lose that sense of human charity, we have to make interventions of caring and giving to help the less fortunate to create the kind of society we all want to live in,\u201d Rickey Teetz said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t have to inconvenience yourself and it doesn\u2019t have to be anything major. But we as Jamaicans have to get back to helping each other.\u201d<\/p>\n Rickey Teetz is leading by example as seen in a viral video on TikTok where he offered clothes, and toiletries to a random stranger, a mentally challenged man in Montego Bay.<\/p>\n The Montego Bay-based singer noted that callousness appeared to be spreading throughout society in recent years.<\/p>\n \u201cThe past decade has seen a trend of people becoming more materialistic and self-focused, even the respect that once led for our elders is increasingly going away. We have to get back to a small island culture of caring for our fellow Jamaicans. Just start with a small act of kindness with even a stranger in need,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Lighters Up<\/em>\u00a0artist\u2019s emotional trauma has translated into a soft spot for family members and friends that are mentally challenged.<\/p>\n In recent days, there has been a surge in the number of confrontations between mentally ill and police officers, often with fatal outcomes. That\u2019s why Rickey Teetz is making an appeal for the public to be more charitable in their thoughts and actions towards the less fortunate, especially the mentally ill.<\/p>\n \u201cMental illness is a sickness that needs understanding and care and we can\u2019t ignore the mentally ill and homeless, they are humans too,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cLife is hard, but we can\u2019t lose that sense of human charity, we have to make interventions of caring and giving to help the less fortunate to create the kind of society we all want to live in,\u201d Rickey Teetz said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t have to inconvenience yourself and it doesn\u2019t have to be anything major. But we as Jamaicans have to get back to helping each other.\u201d<\/p>\n Rickey Teetz is leading by example as seen in a viral video on TikTok where he offered clothes, and toiletries to a random stranger, a mentally challenged man in Montego Bay.\u00a0 The Montego Bay-based singer noted that callousness appeared to be spreading throughout society in recent years.<\/p>\n \u201cThe past decade has seen a trend of people becoming more materialistic and self-focused, even the respect that once led for our elders is increasingly going away. We have to get back to a small island culture of caring for our fellow Jamaicans. Just start with a small act of kindness with even a stranger in need,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Rickey Teetz was just a child, he witnessed firsthand the emotional trauma of his mother who suffered a nervous breakdown while raising a large family by herself in Montego Bay, St. James. \u201cMy mother passed away after suffering a nervous breakdown from raising seven kids by herself and going through terrible poverty\u2026the stress was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":10070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10072,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions\/10072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}