Stars with depression and anxiety
It’s no secret that the younger people are more forthcoming about mental health. A study conducted by American University found that millennials are more likely to talk about mental health, as well as to be accepting of others who struggle with it, compared with their parents or grandparents. And in the years since that study was published, this openness has found a place in the spotlight, as leading in talents in pop culture have spoken out about their own experiences.
From Billie Eilish's raw transparency to Selena Gomez's career-encompassing commitment to the cause to Cara Delevingne's candor around her newfound sobriety, here are some of the stars raising awareness and reducing stigma around mental health.
Billie Eilish
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Since bursting onto the scene in , Billie Eilish has emerged as a fierce mental health advocate. As well as exploring her internal struggles via her music, the experimental pop singer has also been refreshingly candid in interviews, speaking about her struggles with depression, body dysmorphia, and more. “Depression has controlled sort of like everything in my life,” she told Zane Lowe during an interview on Apple Music’s Beats 1. “For my whole life, I’ve kind of always been a melancholy person.” This sensibility is reflected in much of her art, and most recently in her song “What Was I Made For,” written with brother Finneas O’Connell for the Barbie movie. As she matures, Eilish continues to reckon with a sense of melancholy, as well as the darker sides of fame. When asked about unending exposure during a recent interview with Allure, Eilish shared a characteristically honest take. "I’m starting to do better, but I’ve not been doing so great, to be honest. For a while. I have impending-doom feelings most of the day. When I think too much about it, how I can never have privacy again, it’s enough to make you want to do all sorts of crazy things. But you have to let it go.”
Selena G Talking about celebrities and famous people with depression might seem like a bit of tabloid gossip. The truth however is that depression is so common, even personalities at the top of their game who are adored by society can struggle with the debilitating symptoms of mental health issues. Understanding that others also experience depressive symptoms can help people feel less alone and reach out for the treatment they need. Depression is a prevalent mental health condition encompassing a period of weeks where a person sustains a majority of symptoms associated with the disorder. These symptoms often include a depressed mood, problems sleeping, or a loss of interest or pleasure in activities once enjoyed, among others. The symptoms generally have a serious impact on a person&#;s emotions, physical energy, overall wellbeing, and ability to function on a day-to-basis. An estimated 21 million adults, or about percent of the U.S. population in , experienced at least one episode of major depression, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Not everyone experiences the exact same symptoms of depression and the intensity and duration of symptoms usually varies among most individuals. Knowing the most common signs of depression is important for seeking treatment as soon as possible. Common symptoms of depression can include: Treatment for the various types of depression can involve a c Losing his mother as a child sent Prince Harry of the British Royal Family into a tailspin when he grew older because he never really worked through his feelings about Princess Diana’s death, he revealed in a interview. He said that he turned to therapy to grapple with the loss of his mother, who died in a car accident in Although Prince Harry did not use the word “depression” to describe his mental health, he said that he has experienced grief, panic, and rage and that his life devolved into “total chaos” for a two-year period. "I just didn’t know what was wrong with me," he told Telegraph columnist Bryony Gordon in a podcast interview. He also admitted to having come “very close to total breakdown on numerous occasions when all sorts of grief and lies and misconceptions are coming to you from every angle.” The prince shared his experience for Heads Together, a mental health awareness initiative from the Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. “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 my work as well,” he said. “I thought that thinking of her was only going to make me sad and not going to bring her back. So from an emotional side, I was, like, Right, don’t ever let your emotions be part of anything,” the prince said. But suppressing his emotions didn’t make them go away. He began making headlines for questionable decisions—but the controversies led him to some soul searching and serious conversations with loved ones. “All of a sudden, all of this grief that I have never processed started to come to the forefront and I was, like, There is actually a lot of stuff here that I need to deal with." In particular, Harry said that his older brother, Prince William, helped him immensely. “For me, my bro "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." "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," she said. "I didn't talk to anyone about it. I was very reluctantFour of my friends felt the same way I did, and everyone was too embarrassed to talk about it." Advertisement - Continue Reading Below "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." "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." Advertisement - Continue Reading Below "It was beginning to get f
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