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“I hope I learn to get over myself,” she added. I’m depressed thinking about who I would be.” “I think I would just probably be another annoying entity that just wants to wear nice clothes all the time. “I remind myself that I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the psychotic break, if it wasn’t for my lupus, if it wasn’t for my diagnosis,” she said. Knowing that she’s a work in progress is enough for her to appreciate anything the future holds. The singer’s need to remain on the two drugs she takes for her bipolar disorder also means that she likely won’t be able to carry her own children - and “that’s a very big, big, present thing in my life.” Still, she’s convinced that “however I’m meant to have them, I will.” “It sounds really cheesy when I say it sometimes, but I truly don’t know how else I’d be here, simply based on the medical stuff and balances in my head and conversations I’d had with myself really dark.” “I just constantly remind myself that there’s a reason I’m here,” she continued. Then again, she added, “it makes me proud I’m actually talking about things that matter, not sitting here just talking about my brand and 'I look great, and I have this and this.' There’s already enough of that.” “I don’t necessarily think that I’m the face or want to be the face.

The decision to bare her soul - warts and all - in the documentary, she explained, was not an easy one, especially given that she doesn’t think of herself as the right person to represent bipolar disorder.

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It took a lot of hard work for me to (a) accept that I was bipolar, but (b) learn how to deal with it because it wasn’t going to go away.” I would forget where I was when we were talking. I had to learn how to remember certain words. “But I had to detox, essentially, from the medications I was on. Slowly, she felt herself starting to come back. “There was no part of me that was there anymore.”Įventually, Gomez found a psychiatrist who pulled her off all medications but two. “It was just that I was gone,” she said, noting that the drugs doctors were giving her had an effect on her. Her mother learned about the episodes from TMZ. While in treatment, she said she experienced intense paranoia and was unable to trust her doctors, assuming they were all out to get her. “I thought the world would be better if I wasn’t there,” she explained.

Gomez said she spent years contemplating suicide, though she never actually attempted it. God’s honest truth, a few weeks ago, I wasn’t sure I could do it.” I don’t want that to sound dramatic, but I almost wasn’t going to put this out. “Because I have the platform I have, it’s kind of like I’m sacrificing myself a little bit for a greater purpose. “I’m just so nervous,” she says of releasing the film.

The film is so raw, she explained, that she almost didn't sign off on its release. Glimpses of Gomez's struggle are seen in Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me, a documentary highlighting her struggle that debuts Nov. “I think when I started hitting my early twenties is when it started to get really dark, when I started to feel like I was not in control of what I was feeling, whether that was really great or really bad.” “I’m going to be very open with everybody about this: I’ve been to four treatment centers,” Gomez said.

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In the latest cover story for Rolling Stone, the actress and mental health advocate shared grim details about her years-long struggle with bipolar disorder - including suffering a 'psychotic break' which had her hearing voices, and how she was able to find peace after seeking professional help. Selena Gomez is getting brutally honest about her mental health struggles in the new documentary Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me.

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