Singer Selena Gomez has revealed that she’s battling bipolar disorder and said that learning about her the disorder took the fear away.
Gomez shared the news with her friend and singer Miley Cyrus during a tete-a-tete on the later’s “Bright Minded” Instagram Live show on April 3, saying that she learned about her mental health condition during a visit to Massachusetts’ McLean Hospital.
Gomez told Cyrus and the viewers that the more information she gathered about being bipolar, the easier it was to deal with the diagnosis, reports a website.
She said: “When I have more information, it actually helps me. It doesn’t scare me once I know it… When I finally said what I was going to say, I wanted to know everything about it and it took the fear away.”
“When I was younger, I was scared of thunderstorms and my mom bought me all these books on thunderstorms and she was like, ‘The more you educate yourself on this, the more that you’re not going to be afraid’. It completely worked.
“That’s something that helps me big time.”
Gomez has been battling her mental health issues for years and sought out treatment at McLean Hospital in 2018 when her battle with depression and anxiety became over-bearing. She bounced back and accepted the 2019 McLean Award at the hospital’s annual dinner in 2019. (IANS)
