Home » Latest » Celebrity » 10 Celebs You Didn’t Know Have Mental Health Disorders

10 Celebs You Didn’t Know Have Mental Health Disorders

8

InfoSearched 26 0 Celebrity

7.8

SaveSavedRemoved 2

Ten famous faces have quietly carried diagnoses most fans never saw coming.

TheThings Celebrity’s video rundown, “10 Celebs You Didn’t Know Have Mental Health Disorders,” pulls together a decade’s worth of red-carpet interviews, personal essays and awareness campaigns in which A-listers dropped the polished public persona and named what they were actually dealing with. The disclosures range from PTSD and bipolar disorder to postpartum depression and panic attacks, and they’ve landed at a moment when more celebrities are choosing candor over concealment. Here’s what each of them actually said, and when.

• Lady Gaga told the Ali Forney Center in late 2016 that she lives with PTSD stemming from being raped at age 19, in addition to depression and chronic pain.
• Demi Lovato was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 18 following 2010-2011 treatment for bulimia, substance abuse and self-harm.
• Chrissy Teigen detailed severe postpartum depression and anxiety after daughter Luna’s birth in a Glamour essay published in April 2017.

Lady Gaga’s Reckoning With Trauma

Stefani Germanotta has never hidden the toll of fame, but her 2016 visit to the Ali Forney Center, which shelters homeless LGBTQ youth, marked the first time she connected her PTSD directly to being raped at 19. She’s spoken separately about ongoing depression and the chronic pain tied to fibromyalgia, but it’s the PTSD disclosure that reframed how fans understood the anxiety she’d alluded to for years in interviews and lyrics.

Dwayne Johnson’s Low Points Away From The Camera

The Rock has built a public image around relentless positivity, which made his account of depressive episodes land harder. He’s traced the onset back to a college football injury at the University of Miami that ended his shot at an NFL career, and to witnessing his mother’s suicide attempt when he was 15. Johnson has credited open communication, exercise and therapy with getting him through the worst stretches.

Johnson has said therapy, exercise and talking honestly about what he was feeling pulled him out of his darkest periods.

Demi Lovato’s Diagnosis And Advocacy

Lovato’s 2010-2011 treatment stint addressed bulimia, substance abuse and self-harm, but the bipolar disorder diagnosis that followed at age 18 became the piece she’s talked about most publicly since. She’s incorporated cognitive behavioral therapy into a long-term treatment plan and has repeatedly told fans that a diagnosis doesn’t define a person, a message she’s carried through interviews and her own advocacy work the way other musicians who turned out to be nothing like their public image have used their platforms to reset expectations.

Kristen Bell And Chrissy Teigen On Anxiety And Postpartum Depression

Kristen Bell wrote an open essay in May 2016 about anxiety and depression she’s battled since college, pointing to a family history and arguing there’s no shame in leaning on therapy or prescription antidepressants. Chrissy Teigen followed with her own essay in the April 2017 issue of Glamour, describing severe postpartum depression and anxiety after giving birth to daughter Luna in 2016, a piece widely credited with normalizing conversation around postpartum mental health in Hollywood circles.

Emma Stone And Jesse Eisenberg’s #MyYoungerSelf Moment

In May 2017, Emma Stone and Jesse Eisenberg both joined the Child Mind Institute’s “#MyYoungerSelf” campaign to talk about growing up with generalized anxiety, panic attacks and obsessive-compulsive tendencies. Neither had discussed those specifics at that level of detail before, and the campaign’s format, adults writing directly to their younger selves, gave both actors room to describe what those disorders actually felt like as kids rather than just naming them, a level of candor similar to what’s turned up in retrospectives like the tragic details fans learned about Eminem once he started speaking openly about his own struggles.

None of these are one-off soundbites buried in old interviews — Bell’s essay, Teigen’s Glamour piece and the Child Mind Institute campaign all happened within the twelve months before this video went up, which is part of why TheThings framed it as a pattern instead of a list of isolated confessions.