See the inspiring words of Ryan Reynolds on the fight against anxiety
"I went to the depths of the darker extremity of the spectrum, which is not fun."
Last month, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson sharedHow he fought through the invalidizing depression. His discussion frank on the trafficking of the trouble was touched and refreshing, especially since you do not expect a person with a successful phenomenal career and a macho behavior that suffers from this type of sadness.
Now another unlikely figure turned out to talk about his own battle with mental illness. Asa funny all around, withA loving woman and children and a great career to start,Ryan Reynolds is the very photo of a man living on Easy Street.
But in aNew interview forThe New York Times, The 41-year-old actor opened from his own fight against anxiety.
"I have an anxiety, I have always had anxiety," Reynolds said. "The two in the few things" I'm worried about this kind of thing, and I went to the depths of the darker end of the spectrum, which is not fun. "
Asthe character he plays inDEADPOOL 2, Reynolds uses humor as a self-defense mechanism to compensate for its own existential anxiety. That's why he always has children in television appearances, which made it so worried that it becomes nausea. This is also why he also uses journal interviews, although he has chosen to play the right. Now thatDEADPOOL 2 On May 18, it is so nervous about how fans will react it can hardly eat.
"When there are integrated expectations," he said, "Your brain always treats it as a danger."
Like many people fighting anxiety, his problems started in his childhood at home. He calls his father, a former wholesaler of the Police-Cahier, the "stress dispensing in our house". To avoid installing, Reynolds tried to keep the house immacultaneously clean, turning into a "young micro-manager covered with the skin".
In the early 1920s, he treated his anxiety as many other people, drinking and trying to disappear in the crowd.
"I was celebrating and just tried to make me disappear in a certain way," he said.
Nowadays, it deals with its anxiety in a healthier way, as using meditation application headspace. It also remembers that as accumulated anxiety as it is before any live appearance, he knows that sweet relief will come once he is on foot.
"When the curtain opens, I turn on this knucklehead and it takes so that it's somehow and is still going once that I started," he says. "It's this great self-defense mechanism. I think if you're going to jump from a cliff, you could fly so well."
To learn more about how celebrities deal with this common disorder, readThe brilliant wayStars wars' Daisy Ridley beats anxiety.
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