It’s Not Just You.
Sharing Busts Stigma
Amanda Seyfried
OCD
“I’m on Lexapro, and I’ll never get off of it,” Seyfried told Allure. “I don’t see the point of getting off of it. Whether it’s placebo or not, I don’t want to risk it. And what are you fighting against? Just the stigma of using a tool? A mental illness is a thing that people cast in a different category [from other illnesses], but I don’t think it is. It should be taken as seriously as anything else.”
Naomi Osaka
Anxiety and Depression
“The truth is that I have suffered long bouts of depression since the US Open in 2018,” Osaka wrote on Twitter, who also referenced having social anxiety. As she wrote in Time, “I do hope that people can relate and understand it’s O.K. to not be O.K., and it’s O.K. to talk about it. There are people who can help, and there is usually light at the end of any tunnel.”
Selena Gomez
Bipolar Disorder
Gomez got her bipolar diagnosis in 2018. “I wanted to know everything about it, and it took the fear away,” she said on Miley Cyrus’s Instagram Live show. She later told Elle, “I felt a huge weight lifted off me when I found out. I could take a deep breath and go, ‘Okay, that explains so much.’”
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