“Some days it looks like I am sinking, caught in a fight-or-flight state I can not escape,” the 19-year-old wrote in a susceptible TikTok put up, whereas additionally sharing her “scary” signs.
Alabama Barker is opening up about her psychological well being.
In a current TikTok video, the 19-year-old — who’s the daughter of Travis Barker and ex Shanna Moakler — detailed her struggles with “extreme” well being anxiousness, together with the “actual and scary” signs she experiences.
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“I have been combating extreme well being anxiousness, and it is one thing I do not speak about sufficient,”
Alabama wrote within the put up’s caption. “It is extra than simply worrying it is a fixed struggle with my very own thoughts. Some days it looks like I am sinking, caught in a fight-or-flight state I can not escape.”
“My signs are actual and scary: dizziness, head stress, eye floaters, mild sensitivity, derealization, and excessive fatigue,” she continued. “I’ve low iron, I can not drive, I keep away from automobiles, and I miss out on regular issues individuals don’t even assume twice about. Even when docs say I’m okay, I do not really feel okay.”
Alabama went on to elucidate why she determined to confide in her followers about her struggles.
“I am sharing this as a result of well being anxiousness is invisible,” she stated, “however very actual and nobody ought to really feel alone in it, that is one thing I felt was vital to share we’re all on this collectively!”
Alabama’s video featured images and clips of herself within the hospital, together with footage of her checking her vitals on pulse oximeters. Her put up was set to a TikTok audio of a poem about anxiousness written by consumer Josie Balka.
“Anxiousness and I do every thing collectively. That sounds higher than saying I do every thing with anxiousness, however I do every thing,” the poem reads partially. “We get up and fall asleep collectively. We predict everybody hates us collectively. I hate us collectively. Anxiousness and I do every thing collectively. We’re roommates. We stay collectively. Though some days it would not really feel very similar to residing. It feels extra like unease and discomfort, and struggling via conversations, and questioning if you happen to stated an excessive amount of or too little or the improper factor. It would not really feel like residing, it looks like floating besides closely and starvation with no urge for food and butterflies, however dangerous ones, it looks like I am dying, and anxiousness agrees.”
In response to the Cleveland Clinic, well being anxiousness impacts 5 to 7% of adults, and presents itself in two issues: somatic symptom dysfunction and sickness anxiousness dysfunction.
Per the Cleveland Clinic, somatic symptom dysfunction (SSD) is “a psychological well being situation wherein an individual feels considerably distressed about bodily signs and has irregular ideas, emotions and behaviors in response to them.” In the meantime, these with sickness anxiousness dysfunction (IAD), also referred to as hypochondria or hypochondriasis, “worry that they’ve a severe medical situation or that they’re at excessive threat of turning into ailing.”
Alabama has opened up about her well being up to now.
In August 2023, the rapper shared a TikTok, wherein she slammed body-shaming trolls, taking particular purpose at a slate of unflattering paparazzi pictures launched on the time. Alabama then addressed her weight acquire, saying she’d been identified with a “thyroid drawback and an autoimmune illness.”
In the event you or somebody you understand wants assist with psychological well being textual content “STRENGTH” to the Disaster Textual content Line at 741-741 to be linked to an authorized disaster counselor.
