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On May 31, the Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka withdrew from the competition at Roland Garros due to anxiety problems, but a few days before, the Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds He had shared with his Instagram followers his struggle with anxiety, “an eternal companion,” he said, although it was not the first time he made reference to her.
“We don’t talk enough about mental health and we don’t do enough to remove the stigma of talking about it. But, as with this publication, better late than never, I hope … », wrote the actor we saw in the film Deadpool.
Between anxiety and postpartum depression
In addition to Reynolds and Osaka, other Hollywood stars and singers openly shared their experiences, helping to make visible and normalize their struggles with these conditions.
«I am very susceptible to depression. I can get in and out quite easily, ”London singer Adele commented in 2016 in an interview with Vanity Fair. “It started when my grandfather died, when I was about ten years old and, although I have never had suicidal thoughts, I have had to go to therapy.”
Adele also revealed that she had suffered mentally after the birth of her son Angelo. “I had a really bad postpartum depression after having my baby, and it scared me.”
The singer assured that she was reluctant to talk about it and that four of her friends felt the same, but that they were too ashamed to share it.
“I spent a time when I was really depressed,” the American singer Miley Cyrus told the magazine. It in 2014, to the point where he locked himself in his room and his father had to break down the door to get in.
The remembered Hannah Montana also said that people do not know how to approach the subject and that nothing happens to feel sad. “Everyone can benefit from talking to someone. I am the most anti-drug person there is, but some need it and there was a time when I was also treating myself with drugs ».
On the other hand, the 31-year-old Texan actress, Dakota Johnson, told the magazine in 2015 AnOther that auditions in Hollywood were still tough for him. “Sometimes I panic, to the point that I don’t know what I’m thinking or doing. I have a total anxiety attack. I usually have them all the time anyway, but with the worst auditions. They terrify me.
Dakota participated remotely in one of Jimmy Fallon’s shows this year, where she recounted that she suffered a panic attack on set while preparing a scene for the film. Our Friend in which I had to sing.
He assured that the panic episode manifested itself in all possible ways. “I was running around and then I started laughing hysterically and the whole team saying ‘but what is he doing?’ I started running, laughing. Then I stood up and started crying, ”he said.
Does not discriminate by gender
“The struggle and the pain are real,” said the American actor and professional wrestler, popularly known as The Rock, Dwayne Johnson in an interview with the publication. Express, adding: “I was devastated and depressed.”
One of the highest paid actors in Hollywod recounted his mother’s suicide attempt when he was only 15 years old and how, years later, several injuries prevented him from playing professional football and also, after a short period of time, his girlfriend broke up with him. “That was my worst moment,” he said.
“Depression never discriminates. It took me a long time to realize it, but the key is not to be afraid to open up. Especially us men, who have a tendency to keep it to ourselves. You are not alone, ”Johnson wrote on Twitter after the interview was posted in 2018.
Another actress who knows what a panic attack is is 32-year-old American Emma Stone. She said that the first time it happened to her, even as a child, she was at a friend’s house and she was convinced that his house was on fire. She had to call her mother, who took her to her residence to convince her that nothing was wrong.
For three years his anxiety continued. «I had a lot of anxiety as a child. I spent a lot of time in therapy. From eight to ten years old. He was bordering on agoraphobia. I couldn’t get away from my mother », he told the magazine Glamour in 2011 one of the most beloved faces in Hollywood. He also assured that he no longer suffered from panic attacks, but from anxiety.
«I was 25 years old and my own television show. I had dogs that I adored and a ton of friends, I received constant affection from fans and I was happy with my work, but I could not understand what it was, “said the actor of Supernatural, Jared Padalecki, to the magazine Variety in 2015.
It doesn’t always make sense. That’s what I mean. It’s not just people who can’t find a job or can’t fit into society that deal with depression, ”the 38-year-old American actor confessed.
