“Poor Things” star Emma Stone in a new interview with National Public Radio (NPR) she talked about the anxiety she had in her childhood and how she overcame it.

“I started therapy, I think around the age of 8, because it was too hard for me to even leave the house to go to school. I lived in fear of panic attacks,” said the actress, revealing that she had her first seizure when she was 7 years old. She added that the source of her anxiety at a younger age came from the fear of being separated from her mother.

However, that all changed when she started doing theater at the age of 11, reports People.

The actress emphasized that acting provided her a way to focus on the moment without worrying about what happened before or what would happen next. These experiences have changed the way he now thinks about stress. Now he thinks it might be a good thing if people know what to do with it.

“I’ve told a lot of younger people who struggle with anxiety that in many ways I see it as a kind of superpower now,” Stone continued.

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“It just means we have these tools to manage them. And to be able to use stress for productive things, to be able to use all those emotions that are triggered for something creative, or something you’re passionate about.

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Stress is like rocket fuel because you can’t help but get out of bed and do things because you have all this energy inside of you. And that is truly a gift” concluded the actress.