Actress Amanda Seyfried has revealed that she is living with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), which affects most areas of her life. The 30-year-old actress has had the mental health condition for years and takes antidepressant Lexapro to help her control the symptoms, reported Female First.
“I’ve been on it since I was 19, so 11 years. I’m on the lowest dose. I don’t see the point of getting off of it.
Whether it’s placebo or not, I don’t want to risk it. And what are you fighting against? Just the stigma of using a tool?
“A mental illness is a thing that people cast in a different category (from other illnesses), but I don’t think it is. It should be taken as seriously as anything else.”
The newly engaged beauty, who got betrothed to Thomas Sadoski in September, said the condition has had a negative impact on her life and at one point she thought she had a brain tumour but it was just her anxiety making her believe that.
“You don’t see the mental illness: It’s not a mass; it’s not a cyst. But it’s there. Why do you need to prove it? If you can treat it, you treat it. I had pretty bad health anxiety that came from the OCD and thought I had a tumour in my brain.
“I’ve been on it since I was 19, so 11 years. I’m on the lowest dose. I don’t see the point of getting off of it.
Whether it’s placebo or not, I don’t want to risk it. And what are you fighting against? Just the stigma of using a tool?
“A mental illness is a thing that people cast in a different category (from other illnesses), but I don’t think it is. It should be taken as seriously as anything else.”
The newly engaged beauty, who got betrothed to Thomas Sadoski in September, said the condition has had a negative impact on her life and at one point she thought she had a brain tumour but it was just her anxiety making her believe that.
“You don’t see the mental illness: It’s not a mass; it’s not a cyst. But it’s there. Why do you need to prove it? If you can treat it, you treat it. I had pretty bad health anxiety that came from the OCD and thought I had a tumour in my brain.
