Tori Dealis opening up about how taking antidepressants helped her after her mental health hit “rock bottom.”
“My entire life, especially as a teenage girl, I’ve struggled with deep feelings of sadness and hopelessness,” she wrote Thursday alongside a photo of her participating in a “healing” ritual in the Ecuadorian Amazon. “But I’m savvy, I dressed up those feelings with jokes, put on a show, and acted like they weren’t there.”
“As I grew older those methods became useful tools to help get me through the harsh world of social media and the exposure of reality tv, but they were just a Band-aid for the real problems,” Deal continued. “So hitting rock bottom was inevitable. Last year I was in a really dark place, and this is why I decided to look for more help.”
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At the time, the “Love Song” singer, 42, posted a photo holding half of a white pill in her hand, attributing medication — paired with therapy, exercise, sleep, family and friends — for helping her “see” herself again.
“She shared a photo of a pill and explained a feeling of bliss and emotional relief, something that felt foreign to me but I knew I really needed,” Deal wrote of Bareilles. “So, without hesitation I just said ‘f— it’ and made an appointment.”
“I’m posting this because a simple post helped me end years of silent suffering. Everyone deserves to feel OKAY,” she ended her post. “So thank you Sara Bareilles for sharing because you were a part of freeing myself from an emotional cage I lived in for years. And for anyone who this post resonates with just know, I love you. You’re not alone, and all the world wants is for you to feel good being you.”
source: people.com
