“I think it started when I was about 20 years old,” he says, describing how the symptoms were more intense when it started to get dark.
Selena Gomez once again opens up about her battle with mental illness, her bipolar disorder diagnosis, suicidal thoughts and more in a new interview with Rolling Stone.
The singer, who is set to release her new documentary “Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me” on Friday on Apple TV+, says: “I’ll be very open with everyone about this: I’ve been to four rehabs.
“I think it started when I was about 20 years old,” he says, describing how the symptoms were more intense when it started to get dark.
In fact, she observes that she had no real control over what happened to her, whether they were really great or really bad.
Gomez continues, “The crisis would start with depression, then it would go into isolation. Then 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 was in bed for weeks, where even walking downstairs took my breath away.”
Even speaking about suicidal ideation, the singer “I thought the world would be better if I wasn’t there.”
Gomez developed psychosis in 2018 and was subsequently diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Doctors immediately “loaded” her with various drugs, but she said they had a negative effect on her:
“I was just gone. There was no longer a part of me.”
Eventually Gomez worked with a psychiatrist who told her that many of the medications she was taking were actually unnecessary. With his help she began to detoxify her body by cutting out unnecessary purchases and stabilized.
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