.Camila_Cabello shared her struggle with mental health issues in a candid first-person essay.
for Mental Health Month in which she says her anxiety got so bad at one point that"it made me feel like my mind was playing a cruel trick on me." The 23-year-old singer describes how just looking at her Insta feed over the past few months you might see her working in the studio, wearing a"bomb-dot-com" outfit before hitting the stage or cuddling with her dog, Eugene, on the couch.
But, she continues, that wasn't the truth. The truth was that she was hiding the hurt inside of her and she didn't feel like she had the skills to"heal it or handle it." In order to heal, she realized she hand to talk about it and do the hardest part: ask for help. "My anxiety manifested in the form of obsessive compulsive disorder," she says."OCD can take many different forms, and for me it was obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors.
That feeling of feeling"messed up, with a capital UP," lasted for several months and manifested in difficulty sleeping, chronic headaches and what felt like a constant knot in her throat as her body went through what felt like"multiple roller-coaster rides every day." Ever the professional, Cabello says she"kept showing up" for her obligations, never letting on to those around her how hard she was struggling.
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