Selena Gomez Talks Bipolarity and Psychosis in New Documentary; understand psychiatric conditions

In “Minha Mente e Eu”, the artist shows how he has faced challenges regarding his physical and mental health in recent years

To the documentary My mind and meentered the catalog of the streaming channel AppleTV+🇧🇷 American actress and singer Selena Gomez talks about how the episodes he’s dealt with over the past six years – from healing his own lupus diseasewhich forced him to undergo a kidney transplant in 2017, until the definitive break with the singer Justin Bieber – influenced yours mental health🇧🇷 Selena says she has been diagnosed bipolar disorder and frames faced by psychosis🇧🇷 depression And anxiety🇧🇷

Having grappled with fame since she was 7, the 30-year-old artist has always felt pressed by the criticisms received and for great media exposureespecially during his romantic relationship with Bieber, with whom he had many comings and goings between 2009 and 2019, until he married model Hailey Bieber.

The documentary shows that it was hospitalized for the first time in the a psychiatric hospital to treat “anxiety, panic attacks and depression” during his tour rebirthin 2016, a transitional period in the career of the star singer teenager for an adult artist. In 2019, when she was hospitalized for the second time, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Bipolarity

According to Henrique Bottura, clinical director of the Instituto de Psiquiatria Paulista and psychiatrist at the Hospital das Clínicas, bipolarity is a illness that causes mood swings🇧🇷 “Generally, patients with bipolarity alternate two phases: a manic, exaggerated, and a depressive,” he explains.

In manic phase, the bipolar becomes “restless, with his psychic processes accelerated and feels grandiose, often as an exacerbation of the ego and a decreased need for sleep,” says the doctor. “There are several manifestations that show that physical processes are intense and accelerated.”

already inside depressive phase, the person loses the ability to experience pleasure and feels guilty and with low self-esteem. He may avoid contact with other people, be unable to carry out daily activities and even consider suicide. The person may also have changes in sleep pattern and appetite.

Bipolarism has no cure, but it can be treated, and with that, it is possible to go long periods without seizures.

Diagnosis and treatment

To contain bipolarity it is necessary to treat it with drugs that control seizures and avoid mood swings. However, due to the characteristics of bipolar, the doctor emphasizes it it is important to have a correct diagnosis of the disease – which is not always simple.

“If the patient seeks out the psychiatrist in a depressive phase, they may be misdiagnosed as having depression,” she says. The danger in this is that antidepressant medications can precipitate new manic episodes. “Therefore, we must be very careful in adjusting the patient’s therapy and avoid prescribing high doses of antidepressants without a precise diagnosis,” she reiterates.

Another factor that makes diagnosing people with bipolar disorder difficult is that, during the manic phase, they tend to think they don’t need help, that they are self-sufficient. “It’s a difficult disease to accept,” says the psychiatrist.

In her documentary, Selena says the diagnosis was a rough time. “I found out I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I’ll be honest: I didn’t want to go to the hospital, but I didn’t want to be trapped in myself, in my own mind. I thought my life was going to be. I thought ‘that’s the way it goes. I will be for always,” he says.

Psychosis

In an excerpt from the film, Selena says she did images of psychosisa mental disorder characterized by a detachment from reality It is common in people with bipolar disorder. When this happens, the person experiences delusions and hallucinations, leading to agitated and incoherent behavior.

“My thoughts take over my mind many times. It hurts when I think about my past. I want to know how to breathe again. Do I love myself? How do I learn to breathe my own breath?”, relates the artist.

“It’s a sort of split with reality. The person begins to believe and experience things that are not consistent with reality. They may have a change in sense of perception, for example, hearing voices and believing absurd things, sharing thoughts that people usually don’t share”, defines Henrique Bottura.

Treatment of psychotic outbreaks is done through antipsychotic medications, which help reverse these delusions and put your thoughts in order.

Family and friends

Relationships with other people tend to be directly affected when the person has bipolar disorder. This is because, in manic phases, the person can become self-centered and belittling other peoplewhile in depressive phases it withdraws from social life🇧🇷

In her account, Selena details how these moments of mood swings affected how she treated those around her and brought about suffering.

“I have best friends and family, especially my mom and stepfather Brian, why shouldn’t I have talked to them like I did. I shouldn’t have treated them like I have sometimes. Do they know it wasn’t me? I just say ‘ I’m sorry’ because I remember certain things I do and it’s really that bad,” she says.

Henrique Bottura therefore underlines it treatment of bipolar disorder must involve the familybecause the person needs people who understand his condition and help him correctly during his crises.

Selena’s mother recounts in the documentary that, in her daughter’s first mental breakdown, she was “afraid of dying.” “It’s a miracle that she’s been released, but there’s always the fear that it will happen again and that hurts a lot,” she says.

Acceptance

According to a psychiatrist, one of the most important points for dealing with bipolar is accept the disease and do a psychotherapeutic follow-up🇧🇷

“The person needs to learn to deal with crises and understand that it is necessary to have a change of habits,” he says. “People with bipolar disorder can’t have a messy life. You have to be in control even when you’re okay. You have to go to the doctor and check your medications,” she adds.

At the end of the documentary, Selena says that despite the ups and downs, psychiatric diagnoses and her journey thus far have helped her to manage your mood swings. Therefore, she says she is doing well today and is focused on building a mental health debate with his fans.

“I have found that the relationship with bipolar disorder and myself will always exist. I will make friends with him. I will continue to struggle, but I am happy. I am at peace. I am angry. I am sad. I am safe. I am full of doubt. I am a work in progress, I’m enough. I’m Selena,” she says.

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