Dove Cameron for Byrdie.Photo:Leeor Wild
Leeor Wild
Dove Cameronis being transparent about her mental health journey in hopes of helping others who’ve gone through similar experiences.
“I think it’s important just to say this: I’ve had times in my life when I was incredibly suicidal. And I think that needs to be destigmatized,” she told the outlet.
Dove Cameron for Byrdie.Leeor Wild
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Cameron has been open about her mental health struggles over the years.
In May 2022, theDescendantsactress shared that she’s “struggling” with “the concept of self, my inner relationship to who I know myself to be and my outer perceivable self who I feel I have never known but other people seem to.”
In anemotional Instagram post, Cameron posted a series of mirror selfies with tears in her eyes as well as a screenshot of a lengthy note. The accompanying caption addressed “identity vs the self” and “depression & dysphoria.”
Cameron continued, “I don’t know if I’ve ever slowed down enough to learn who I am outside of fight, flight or freeze. but the self finds ways of showing up anyway, trickling in enough to hint at who we might be if we didn’t feel we had to be everything but the self.”
Additionally, she shared, “sexuality and performative gender norms, societal rewards and identity are really throwing me for a loop.” The actressidentifies as queer.
Cameron also mentioned how “social media” and “constant broadcasting of self and visibility of ourselves and everyone everywhere” are among “modern problems” and not “optimal for mental health.”
“What I am choosing to say is I am in process, I’m investigating, I’m struggling more than half of the time and I’m trying to maintain a quiet non judgmental curiosity rather than punish myself for not knowing what I’m feeling or where I’m going,” she continued.
Explaining to her followers that she’s sharing the message “without conclusion because i don’t have answers from myself yet, and because I have a feeling it’s a very intrinsically (modern) human conversation,” the"Boyfriend"singer wants her fans to know she doesn’t want them to “feel alone in a sea of what seems like humans who are comfortable in their identity.”
“Human, first. The rest is all the rest,” Cameron added. “Emotion is COOL. dysphoria is OK. living as a human is INTENSE. We are all holding hands. Don’t forget.”
source: people.com
