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Celebrities Speaking Out About Mental Health Issues Matters
In my last blog post I shared my journey with mental illness (obsessive compulsive disorder), and one of the big reasons I felt compelled to do so was because I was inspired by various celebrities speaking openly about their mental health issues as of late.
This trend of being honest and open about your mental health struggles is a relatively new but albeit amazing advance in terms of human vulnerabilities being used to strengthen the confidence of others. Knowing that somebody whom you grew up idolizing has also struggled with not wanting to get out of bed in the morning due to crippling depression, or dealt panic attacks happening while at work helps to de stigmatize mental illness and encourage other’s to speak more openly about their own struggles.
Somebody whom I greatly admire is actress Kristen Bell, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Veronica Mars, Couples Retreat, etc. She has always come across as this happy go lucky, bubbly, and upbeat person that you’d love to have as your best girlfriend. However I learned to love and respect her even more when she opened up about the fact that she has dealt with anxiety and depression since she was a late teen and has been medicated and in therapy ever since and has zero shame about that. A recent interview she gave touched my heart because of how eloquently she shared her…
