Sara Bareilles Opens Up About Deciding to Take Medicine & Dealing With Depression & Anxiety
19.01.2022 - 03:07
/ justjared.com
Sara Bareilles is opening up in an incredibly candid post about her mental health.
The 42-year-old The Blessed Unrest singer-songwriter shared insight into her decision to begin taking medicine for her mental health in a post on Tuesday (January 18) on Instagram.
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“This is my medicine. (Not pictured medicines: friends/family, therapy, exercise, sleep and meditation.),” she began, captioning a picture holding a half pill.
“I wanted to write a little bit about the fact that after 20 years of feeling very strongly that it was not the path I needed to take…I have tried medication for the first time. For the first time in months I can feel myself again- my joy, my optimism and my laughter are among some of the precious parts of myself I have rediscovered. They sit at my soul’s table, along with my sweet sadness and my tender anxiety…who, by the way, aren’t the only ones talking anymore. It is a profound, holy relief,” she continued.
“For those who don’t understand it or have never dealt with it, from the inside of depression and anxiety sometimes you can’t see the possibility of a way out, much less the path itself,” she went on to explain.
“For the past year, I felt desperate and overwhelmed almost all the time. The amount of energy it took to ‘manage’ my emotions (I use that term loosely because that makes me seem like I had a handle on anything) would exhaust me so much that my whole sense of myself got distorted. I didn’t feel like me anymore. Depression is not rational. It does not respond to ‘I have so much to be grateful for’ or ‘just concentrate on the good things.’ I have moved through depression and anxiety many times in my life, but this time I needed extra help,” she added.
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