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10 Celebrities Who Have Openly Discussed Their Struggles With Anxiety

Mental illness can be so lonely. Anxiety is one of the ones that gets the most stigma and those who experience it can feel so alone in their struggle since symptoms can differ between sufferers. However, there have been celebrities who have spoken out about their experiences, allowing others who have anxiety to have someone to relate to and to raise awareness that no one is truly alone. Here are 10 celebrities with anxiety who have opened up to the public about their struggles.

1. Selena Gomez

“I started to have panic attacks right before getting onstage or right after leaving the stage, Gomez told Vogue. “Basically I felt I wasn’t good enough, wasn’t capable.” A lot of celebrities with anxiety have kept it to themselves, but some have started opening up to the world.

2. Emma Stone

“When I was about seven, I was convinced the house was burning down,” Stone told Rolling Stone. “I could sense it. Not a hallucination, just a tightening in my chest, feeling I couldn’t breathe like the world was going to end. There were some flare-ups like that, but my anxiety was constant.”

3. Demi Lovato

“I’ve actually had anxiety to the point where I’ve felt drugged,” Lovato told the Huffington Post. “I actually ended up having problems with my thyroid because I was so stressed out and so anxious at times in my life.”

4. Ellie Goulding

“Sick, horrible things would go through my mind but I didn’t want to draw attention to myself,” Goulding told Cosmopolitan. “It got to the point when I couldn’t even get into the car and go to the studio.”

5. Kendall Jenner

“I have such debilitating anxiety because of everything going on that I literally wake up in the middle of the night with full-on panic attacks,” Jenner told Haper’s Bazaar.

6. Lady Gaga

“I openly admit to having battled depression and anxiety and I think a lot of people do,” Lady Gaga said to Mirror.

7. Zendaya

“I used to struggle with anxiety pretty bad,” she wrote in a post about anxiety on her app. “It only happened when I sang live, not when I danced or did any other live performances, and it stemmed from a bad experience I had while singing on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ in 2013. It wasn’t my best performance and I’ve never let myself live that down. I had mad anxiety ever since that.”

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8. Kristen Stewart

“Between ages 15 and 20, it was really intense,” Steward told Marie Claire. “I was constantly anxious. I was kind of a control freak. If I didn’t know how something was going to turn out, I would make myself ill, or just be locked up or inhibited in a way that was really debilitating.”

9. Amanda Seyfried

“I still do get terribly nervous, and that’s partly due to the fact I think too much and overanalyze things,” Seyfried told Glamour. “I’ll start worrying about my parents or my dog, and I’ll picture him opening the window of my apartment and falling out, even though I can’t get that thing open myself.

10. Taylor Swift

“And it can feel, at times, if you let your anxiety get the better of you, like everybody’s waiting for you to really mess up – and then you’ll be done,” Taylor Swift told Glamour.

Did you know about these celebrities with anxiety? Let us know in the comments below!
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Ashley Paskill

Ashley is a recent graduate from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA with her Bachelor's in journalism. She love writing articles about music and Philadelphia. Ashley would love to pursue a career in journalism in New York City.

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