Talking about mental health is very important as it includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
If you are not comfortable to talk about your anxiety or panic attacks to your friends or family then contact a therapist or psychologist.
Not only common people but there are many celebrities who have suffered from mental health issues. Depression or anxiety can affect anyone and these stars have opened up about the same.
Check out this list to know what these celebrities have to say about mental health:
1. Kendall Jenner
“I have such debilitating anxiety because of everything going on that I literally wake up in the middle of the night with full-on panic attacks,” she told Cara Delevingne in an interview.
“Where do I even start? Everything is so horrible, it’s hard to name one thing. I just think that the world needs so much love. I wish I had the power to send Cupid around the planet, as cheesy as that sounds. You go online and you see everyone saying the worst things to each other, and it’s hard to stay positive.
It’s hard not to get eaten alive by all the negativity.”
2. Adele
“I can slip in and out of [depression] quite easily,” Adele told Vanity Fair. “I had really bad postpartum depression after I had my son, and it frightened me. I didn’t talk to anyone about it. I was very reluctant…Four of my friends felt the same way I did, and everyone was too embarrassed to talk about it.”
3. Ryan Reynolds
“I never, ever slept. Or I was sleeping at a perfect right angle — just sitting straight, constantly working at the same time,” he told Variety, describing the anxiety he experienced while filming Deadpool. “By the time we were in post [production], we’d been to Comic-Con, and people went crazy for it. The expectations were eating me alive.”
4. Chrissy Teigen
“I also just didn’t think it could happen to me. I have a great life. I have all the help I could need: John, my mother (who lives with us), a nanny. But postpartum does not discriminate,” she wrote in an essay for Glamour. “I couldn’t control it. And that’s part of the reason it took me so long to speak up: I felt selfish, icky, and weird saying aloud that I’m struggling. Sometimes I still do.”
5. Beyoncé
“It was beginning to get fuzzy―I couldn’t even tell which day or which city I was at. I would sit there at ceremonies and they would give me an award and I was just thinking about the next performance,” she told The Sun in 2011. “My mother was very persistent and she kept saying that I had to take care of my mental health.”
6. Miley Cyrus
“Depression is more of an issue than people really want to talk about. Because people don’t know how to talk about being depressed—that it’s totally okay to feel sad.
I went through a time where I was really depressed. Like, I locked myself in my room and my dad had to break my door down. It was a lot to do with, like, I had really bad skin, and I felt really bullied because of that. But I never was depressed because of the way someone else made me feel, I just was depressed,” she told ELLE.
“And every person can benefit from talking to somebody. I’m the most anti-medication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too. So many people look at [my depression] as me being ungrateful, but that is not it—I can’t help it.
There’s not much that I’m closed off about, and the universe gave me all that so I could help people feel like they don’t have to be something they’re not or feel like they have to fake happy. There’s nothing worse than being fake happy.
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7. Dakota Johnson
“Sometimes I panic to the point where I don’t know what I’m thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack….I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning it’s bad. I’m so terrified of it,” she said of her anxiety.
8. Demi Lovato
”I think it’s important that people no longer look at mental illness as something taboo to talk about,” she said at the National Council for Behavioral Health in Washington DC.
“It’s something that’s extremely common, one in five adults has a mental illness, so basically everyone is essentially connected to this problem and this epidemic. The problem with mental illness is people don’t look at it as a physical illness.
When you think about it, the brain is actually the most complex organ in your body. We need to treat it like a physical illness and take it seriously.”
9. Emma Stone
“The first time I had a panic attack I was sitting in my friend’s house, and I thought the house was burning down. I called my mom and she brought me home, and for the next three years it just would not stop,” Emma Stone told the Wall Street Journal. “I would ask my mom to tell me exactly how the day was going to be, then ask again 30 seconds later. I just needed to know that no one was going to die and nothing was going to change.”
10. Dwayne Johnson
“I found that, with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone,” he said in a YouTube video “You’re not the first to go through it; you’re not going to be the last to go through it.
And oftentimes—it happens—you just feel like you’re alone. You feel like it’s only you. You’re in your bubble. And I wish I had someone at that time who could just pull me aside and [say], ‘Hey, it’s gonna be OK.
It’ll be OK.’ So, I wish I knew that.”
11. Lady Gaga
“When my career took off, I don’t remember anything at all. It’s like I’m traumatized. I needed time to recalibrate my soul,” she explained in an interview. “I definitely look after my well-being…I openly admit to having battled depression and anxiety and I think a lot of people do. I think it’s better when we all say: ‘Cheers!’ and ‘fess up to it.”
12. Selena Gomez
“I’ve discovered that anxiety, panic attacks and depression can be side effects of lupus, which can present their own challenges,” she told People. “I want to be proactive and focus on maintaining my health and happiness and have decided that the best way forward is to take some time off […] I know I am not alone by sharing this, I hope others will be encouraged to address their own issues.”
13. Zayn Malik
”I found it really frustrating that, even now that I was being upfront about what the issue was, some people still found reasons to doubt it.
But that’s the industry. It’s an aspect of this job that I have to deal with, and I’m trying to accept it,” Zayn wrote in an excerpt of his book that was published by Time. “The thing is, I love performing. I love the buzz. I don’t want to do any other job.
That’s why my anxiety is so upsetting and difficult to explain. It’s this thing that swells up and blocks out your rational thought processes. Even when you know you want to do something, know that it will be good for you, that you’ll enjoy it when you’re doing it, the anxiety is telling you a different story.
It’s a constant battle within yourself.”
14. Princess Diana
“I was unwell with post-natal depression, which no one ever discussed… and that in itself was a bit of a difficult time.
You’d wake up in the morning feeling you didn’t want to get out of bed, you felt misunderstood, and just very, very low in yourself,” she said in a 1995 interview. “When no one listens to you, or you feel no one’s listening to you, all sorts of things start to happen.
For instance you have so much pain inside yourself that you try and hurt yourself on the outside because you want help, but it’s the wrong help you’re asking for. People see it as crying wolf or attention-seeking, and they think because you’re in the media all the time you’ve got enough attention, inverted commas….
I didn’t like myself, I was ashamed because I couldn’t cope with the pressures.”
15. Prince Harry
“I’ve spent most of my life saying ‘I’m fine,’ Prince Harry said in an interview with The Telegraph journalist Bryony Gordon on her mental health podcast. “I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12 and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but also my work as well…I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.
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16. Katy Perry
“I wrote a song about it,” she said in a livestream in 2017. “I feel ashamed that I would have those thoughts, feel that low and that depressed.”
17. Zendaya
“I used to struggle with anxiety pretty bad,” she wrote in a post on her app. “It only happened when I sang live, not when I danced or did any other live performances, and it stemmed from a bad experience I had while singing on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ in 2013. It wasn’t my best performance and I’ve never let myself live that down. I had mad anxiety ever since that.”
18. Ellen DeGeneres
“When I walked out of the studio after five years of working so hard, knowing I had been treated so disrespectfully for no other reason than I was gay, I just went into this deep, deep depression. It’s so corny but it’s true. You have no idea where the darkest times of your life might end, so you have to just keep going,” she explained.
19. Nicki Minaj
”It was just one dead end after another,” Nicki said of contemplating suicide. “At one point, I was, like, ‘What would happen if I just didn’t wake up?’ That’s how I felt. Like, ‘Maybe I should just take my life?”
20. Kristen Stewart
“Between ages 15 and 20, it was really intense. I was constantly anxious. I was kind of a control freak. If I didn’t know how something was going to turn out, I would make myself ill, or just be locked up or inhibited in a way that was really debilitating,” she said.
“I’ve come out the other end not hardened but strong. I have an ability to persevere that I didn’t have before. It’s like when you fall on your face so hard and the next time, you’re like, Yeah, so? I’ve fallen on my face before.”
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