Sometimes we tend to forget that celebrities are people just like us, who have to face everyday battles like any other human being. It is because of this that we appreciate when they show their fears or weaknesses, because they make us identify more with them.
Like the case of Selena Gomez, who decided to share with the public the hard times she has had to go through in her documentary Selena Gomez: my mind and me. Prior to its premiere, the 30-year-old singer gave an interview to the magazine rollstone, in which I speak candidly about difficult topics about your physical and mental health.
the protagonist of Selena + Chef She has shown once again why she came to accumulate more followers on Instagram than any other human being on the planet, because she always speaks with sincerity, which has given her the image of being an authentic person.
It will be through the documentary my mind and me, that Sel will open her privacy to tell, among other things, her fight against the mental illness of bipolarity. The premiere is scheduled for this November 4, on Apple TV +.
the star of Only Murders in the Building told the American magazine that she was hesitant about telling this difficult story, but realized that it could help other people who were in the same situation as her.
I know it has a great message, but am I the right person to bring it out? I do not know. I thought, ‘okay, if I can do that for one person, imagine what I could do.’ Eventually, I did. I just said ‘yes’.
The documentary fully narrates the moment in which mental anguish caused Selena to cancel her tour revival, in 2016, before finishing it, and that he be admitted to a treatment center. The cameras did not stop recording while she faced this strong battle.
In addition, it contains scenes where the interpreter of good for you she couldn’t even get out of bed, times when she lashes out at her friends and can even be seen wandering around her house aimlessly.
I’m going to be very open with everyone about this, I’ve been to four treatment centers. I think when I was in my twenties that’s when it all started to get really dark, when I started to feel like I wasn’t in control of what I felt, whether it was really good or really bad.
It would start with depression, then move on to isolation. So, I just couldn’t move from my bed. I didn’t want anyone to talk to me. My friends brought me food because they loved me, but none of us knew what it was. Sometimes I would spend weeks in bed, to the point that even going downstairs left me breathless.
I thought the world would be better if I wasn’t there. I just didn’t like who he was, because I didn’t know who he was.
In addition, Selena said that although the idea of suicide accompanied her for many years, she never actually tried to do it. The former child star revealed that in 2018 she started hearing voices, which got louder and louder as time went on. These increasingly drowned out the real world, triggering an episode of psychosis in her.
The star does not remember much of that time, but ended up in a treatment center, where she spent long months with a paranoia that prevented her from trusting others, because she thought that everyone was trying to catch her, until she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
I had to detox, essentially from the medications I was taking. I had to learn to remember certain words. It took me a long time to accept that I was bipolar, but I learned to deal with it because it wasn’t going to go away.
Only those who have suffered from a mental illness can talk about how terrible it is to face this situation, since they are not as obvious illnesses as physical ones, many people tend to minimize them, hence the importance of public figures addressing these issues.
That’s all I want. I know people who have felt those things that they don’t know what to do. And I just want that to be normal. In fact, we are in communication with tons of different mental health organizations and resources through Rare Impact.
I constantly remind myself that there is a reason I am here. It sounds really cheesy when I say it sometimes, but I really don’t know how else I’d be here, just based on the medical stuff, the balances in my head, and the conversations I had with myself, which were really dark.