May is Mental Health Awareness Month and Pink is letting fans struggling know that they are not alone. As part of the Child Mind Institute’s new Dare to Share campaign, which aims to encourage young people to open up about their mental health struggles, Pink took to social media to get real about her mental health struggles.
“I used to get pretty awful panic attacks and I didn’t know what was happening. I didn’t have anybody to talk to about it and I didn’t know what to do,” she shares. “I would feel like I was having strokes, like, stroke symptoms, it was terrifying.”
Pink says she would go to the ER and would get tests but she was always told she was fine. She soon started seeing a therapist, and, “I started learning all these steps on how to take care of myself, I’d never been taught how to take care of myself.”
Pink says she eventually found things like meditation, candles, incense and more that “take care of me and my heart and my head,” describing them as her “spiritual toolbox.” She adds that “writing songs is the probably the thing that has saved my life.”
- She notes, “I also have surrounded myself with a village of people that know when I’ve forgotten that I have a spiritual toolbox, they remind me.” She also let her fans know “it does get better and there are beautiful moments waiting for you and there are beautiful people waiting to love you, and one of those people is yourself.”
Source: Child Mind Institute