Selena Gomez reveals that she has bipolar disorder
For Selena, this realization wasn't scary or upsetting — it was a tool.
"When I ... know more information it actually helps me, it doesn't scare me once I know it. I think people get scared of that, and I've seen it, I've seen some of it in my own family where I'm like, what's going on?" Selena said. "I just feel like, when I finally said what I was gonna say, I wanted to know everything about it and it took the fear away."
Knowledge is certainly power, and the more we understand our mental health, the better we are able toit. Selena compared the benefit of knowledge to a memory from her childhood. "When I was younger, I was scared of thunderstorms and my mom bought me all these books on thunderstorms," she said. "She was like, the more you know, the more you educate yourself on this, the more you're not gonna be afraid. And it completely worked. That's something that helps me big time.
Miley agreed that understanding your mental health can help you cope. She shared her own experience with"I have OCD, I'm pretty obsessive," Miley said. "When I was younger, it used to really make me feel like I was too different. I couldn't understand it. I used to alphabetize things, like I would go into these little fits when I couldn't alphabetize things.
"I've been writing a lot, that's been helping me process what's been going on," Selena said. "I had gone to treatment a few times for anxiety and for depression and for other stuff I've been struggling with, and when I do meetings, a lot of it is connecting with people you haven't been the greatest to or you may not have thought about.
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