Selena Gomez is revealing more about her struggles with bipolar disorder.
The singer disclosed that she had suicidal thoughts and checked into 4 different treatment centers.
She said in a Rolling Stone interview: “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.”
She explained that at times she would have symptoms of mania, like feeling the need to buy everyone in her life a car so she could share her “gift”, but then she’d fall into a deep state of depression and not be able to get out of bed.
And in her darkest moments, she said, “I thought the world would be better if I wasn’t there.”
After a 2018 episode, she says she ended up on a ton of meds, which helped her psychosis, but made her feel unlike herself.
Reveals she may never get pregnant due to bipolar medication
Selena Gomez revealed she may never be able to get pregnant due to her bipolar disorder medication.
The 30-year-old singer and actress was first diagnosed in 2018.
In a recent cover story for Rolling Stone, Gomez explained how she’s tried to make “friends” with her bipolar disorder, despite the effects it has on her hopes to one day become a mother.
Gomez told Rolling Stone about a time when she visited a friend who was trying to get pregnant.
She recalled how she cried in her car after their visit because the two medications she takes for her bipolar disorder make it unlikely that she will be able to carry her own children.
She said: “That’s a very big, big, present thing in my life. However I’m meant to have them, I will.
Bipolar disorder medications during pregnancy can potentially cause birth defects, behavioural issues, and long-term neurobehavioral problems.
Women with bipolar disorder are also exposed to the risk of increased bipolar symptoms and episodes during pregnancies, so doctors face the difficult decision of whether or not people with bipolar disorder should take certain medications during pregnancy.
