We are always grateful to see public figures acknowledging their mental health challenges, as we believe that bringing these common and serious issues into the light will help chip away at stigmas and encourage more people to confidently seek treatment. Kendall Jenner, of the Kardashian clan, has been openly sharing both her struggle with anxiety and some of the coping skills she is using to address it. Here’s an excerpt from a piece about Miss Jenner’s revelations from Teen Vogue. If you’ve been struggling with anxiety and live in northeast Ohio, we would be happy to hear from you.
This past year has been a busy one for Kendall Jenner. She’s achieved major career goals, but she’s also been through some pretty scary personal issues like her sister Kim’s robbery in Paris. Between her wild highs and lows, Kendall revealed something’s been going on behind the scenes. On her app, Kendall said she’s really struggled with anxiety lately.
In a list of her 2016 “peaks and pits”, Kendall said the year brought a lot of anxiety her way.
“Anxiety was a huge hurdle for me to deal with this past year (and security concerns didn’t help), but I think I’m finally learning how to cope,” Kendall wrote.
This isn’t the first time Kendall has opened up about having anxiety. In an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kendall talked about her sleep paralysis, a condition that leaves you unable to move or speak when you wake up in the middle of the night. Kendall said she was really freaked out by the episodes, and we don’t blame her. People with anxiety are more likely to suffer from sleep paralysis, so it makes sense that Kendall was going through all this at the same time. Kendall also talked in the same episode of the show about the panic attacks she’d been having on planes.