Jaime Lorente revealed yesterday in ‘Salvados’ that the success of ‘La casa de papel’ caused him “anxiety and brutal stress” that led him to a therapist. The actor was accompanied on the show by the singer Amaia Romero, who also explained why he needed to go to therapy.
Last night, the laSexta program Salvados was dedicated to the mental health of young Spaniards of the so-called ‘Glass Generation’, that covers the citizens between 15 and 29 years old. Statistics show that this population block is the most affected by mental health issues stemming from the pandemic, of the difficult economic situation and the impact caused by social networks (before they were called ‘like generation’). Suicide is the second leading cause of natural death among young people, only behind tumors.
The program presented by Gonzo moved to the Faculty of Geography and History of the Complutense University of Madridthe only university center in Spain with a free psychological hotline for students, PsiCall UCM. Gonzo met the actor in the talk Jaime Lorente (‘La casa de papel’), the singer Amaia Romero (‘Operación Triunfo’), the young people Isa Huete and Adrián Oliva and the psychologist Francisco Estupiñá, head of PsiCall.
The actor from ‘El Cid’ explained that he had decided to participate in the program to make his work in mental health visible: “I am so proud of the work I have done on myself, to normalize the issue, how important it is, that it seems normal to me to be here. It’s not about being a hero. It’s almost nice because you pay attention to yourself,” Lorente said.
Lorente pointed out that his mental health problem is related to his difficulty managing the success of the Netflix series ‘La casa de papel’. “My relationship with work has always been vocation and love. I was happy doing theater and earning just for a few beers, but suddenly I arrived in Madrid, at the age of 25, and my second project is the Netflix series, which bursts and I am a sad person. Now that I had achieved what I always thought I wanted, I went to the well.” he remembered.
“They asked me for photos but no one asked me howor was. I am not ‘The paper house’ I am not a public figure either, I have made a public figure “. Overexposure to her Denver character, Jaime Lorente noted, made her feel like an object, not a person. From what he indicated in ‘Saved’, it is not his only problem, it has also affected other series partners.
What could have been fulfilling a dream ended up coming against him and led him to suffer the so-called imposter syndrome, an extreme case of low self-esteem“Those were days of wanting to leave everything behind, I thought I had fought for a dream that was not mine. I believed I had no right to achieve what I had achieved. I had brutal stress and anxiety. […] The fear of not feeling loved, of failing, I already had. ‘I am not enough’ is the phrase that I have repeated the most in my life”, the actor stressed.
According to Lorente, calling the psychologist was one of the best decisions of his life, which made him take a weight off his shoulders. “I was doing something to heal myself. It’s one of the greatest gestures of self-love I’ve had in my life. Now I still have anxiety and insecurity but I’m doing much better,” concluded.
Amaia: “Every day I think about taking off social networks”
With Jaime Lorente, the singer Amaia Romero shared a debate group, who assured that she wanted to “make visible and normalize” the issue of mental health. The Navarrese explained that she had also started going to therapy, so she felt more focused: “It’s been crazy years but now I feel safer, with more confidence and I think it’s important to make that visible”.
It all started when the artist went to live in Barcelona and felt that things were not going well, that she was disappointed with the world she had found: “I had always wanted to dedicate myself to music but discovered that it was not what I had imagined. I didn’t feel like doing anything, and I’ve never been like that. It was not difficult for me to go to the psychologist. The first call was hopeful “, he asserted in ‘Salvados’.
Amaia recalled that she was not well prepared to manage what came her way after winning ‘OT 2017’: “I was only 19 years old and when it ended, I spent a year without being aware of what had happened to me and was happening to me. I was carried away. I felt that people thought they knew me and expected something from me that I didn’t even know myself. I didn’t feel understood,” she declared.
The artist explained that her insecurity collided with the articles that were written about her private life in the media: “That they wrote about whether I had to shave my armpits was exaggerated, I have never understood it.” She also made the public part of that impostor syndrome in which she also seemed to fit: “When I went to the studio to compose with artists I always felt smallafraid that they would realize that I am not worth it or that they would disappoint me”.
Amaia Romero consoled Isa Huete, one of the guests on the program, who assured that it made her feel bad to compare herself on Instagram with people like the singer. Romero pointed out that it also happened to her: “Sometimes I compare myself with other people and it made me feel ugly, afraid to show myself because of what they might say. It’s a pressure. Every day I think about taking off my nets, but it’s part of my job“.
The program ended by recalling that the free helpline for mental health that the Government was going to implement, 024, is not yet operational.
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