The K-pop star opens up about the panic attack that changed the course of 2020 for him and how he's spreading mental health awareness among teens and young adults. Jae_Day6 day6official
"I started feeling my heart pulsating super fast, and Iinterview over Zoom earlier this month. He was determined to appear as calm as possible, though. COVID-19 wasaround the world, so Jae feared his hyperventilating would freak out the driver and he'd get thrown out of the car. Someway, somehow, Jae was able to compose himself enough to ask the driver to take him to the hospital.and was later diagnosed with panic disorder.
Prior to the "car incident," as he calls it now, Jae had trouble breathing, especially at night due to sleep apnea, and experienced mild anxiety attacks, he says. Occasionally, he even got stage fright complete with quivering lips. However, Jae brushed off these instances, telling himself to suck it up, keep moving forward.
Working non-stop for the past five years since DAY6 debuted in 2015 also distracted Jae. He never let himself take time to seek help or learn more about mental health. In fact, his panic attack brought to his attention for the first time that your mental health couldLike writer's block, Jae believed he could work through it — and he did time and time again and encouraged those around him experiencing anxiety to do the same.
For about a month and a half after the panic attack, Jae sought out exactly that. "I had a period where I just literally laid on my bed," Jae recalls. “I couldn't make myself do anything. I was still in shock, like, thisa part of K-pop's mental health conversations. Needless to say, when Jae brings it up unprompted and discusses his experiences with it so frankly, I'm amazed — and comforted.
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