For being a sixteen-year-old girl, the main character Aza has a lot more in common with 40-year-old Green than readers think. Her own struggles in the novel with anxiety and obsessive thoughts mirror Green’s own experiences.
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In many ways, Riverdale can be a dramatization of a stereotypically normal life, but Betty Cooper links the average human being to the wild world of Riverdale through the common variable of mental health.
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Glass was first inspired to speak out by the multitudes of women of the #MeToo campaign who opened up about sexual abuse in film and other industries.
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His profound level of self awareness and ability to be critical yet uplifting is truly inspiring. Everybody has demons, and none of them go away with fame and money.
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What’s important is that she spoke up about it. Solange doesn’t say much about it publicly but instead pours her emotions into her music.
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"That portion of my youth was heart-splitting and lonely at times, but it was also dazzling and beautiful. And that’s how life is for a lot of us. If only I’d known all those years that it was just part of being human.
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As the film showed, Steve Madden is very much a real person, who is unapologetically himself; he’s in his late fifties, never seen without his trademark: a baseball hat, swears at least once every other sentence and has a brilliant perspective on life.
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Although Kim Kardashian has been in the spotlight for most of her life, she is now being more affected by it than ever.
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The first thing that stood out to me was Gina’s ability to look inside herself and recognize her own anxiety. That’s the thing with anxiety, it’s internal and only obvious to the person experiencing it.
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It was after reflecting on his many roles as an actor that he began to question his own self-identity.
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Many of us turn to music to lift us up when we’re feeling down. Positive lyrics on a catchy beat can often distract us from what’s on our mind. However, providing this relief for a matter of 3 or 4 minutes can only do so much.
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Banks is not one to let anyone or any mental illness prevent her from being her strongest self, in her song Weaker Girl off of her second album, she states, “I can’t be the weaker girl, kinda like the girl I used to be"
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Although it’s hard to believe that a Hollywood starlet could suffer from social anxiety to the point of experiencing a chronic manifestation such as Trichotillomania, that’s exactly what is happening. Mental health disorders do not discriminate, so nobody is too rich, too powerful, too beautiful, too “anything,” to be crossed off from having one.
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The few critical reviews on the Goodreads page for Lev Grossman’s The Magicians seem to echo one complaint about the wildly popular fantasy series: the protagonist, Quentin Coldwater, is miserable. The user Nataliya wrote of him in her two-star review of the first installment: “He makes Holden Caulfield look like a bundle of sunshine.
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Ultimately, Leo is living proof that having OCD doesn’t have to be burdensome, as it has actually helped him in certain aspects of his life, including the filming of this role. This goes to show that even a struggle with mental illness can have a silver lining.
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Demi Lovato was thrust in the spotlight at a young age, starring on Disney Channel before pursuing her current career as a pop singer. Of course, this publicity has been a double-edged sword.
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With a society driven by the media, it’s easy to compare yourself with the people you see on your Instagram feed or on TV. In the words of Cara, “love yourself, embrace your flaws. The cracks within us are the beautiful parts that need to have light shone on them."
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In a 2015 interview with Oprah, The Rock opened up about a spell of depression he faced in his twenties. After being cut from a Canadian football team, and thus unable to pursue his dream of being a professional athlete, his sense of purpose diminished.
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Halsey shared, “A lot of people say if you can’t take the heat you shouldn’t be a musician, and I think that’s messed up. I think I deserve to chase my dream, to do what I love, even though I have a mental illness.”
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Kendrick is showing that even though he goes through some very hard times, the positives still outweigh the negatives.
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