The ‘Mi Gente’ star has talked about his mental health issues in the latest Becky G podcast. Balvin talked to Becky G about his mental health issues and suicidal thoughts with which he suffered when he was younger.
One of the shocking things he revealed in the interview was that his battle with depression was so gruesome that he was almost pushed towards death.
The Reggaeton star appeared in the podcast “En La Sala Amazon Music” hosted by Becky G and revealed that he suffered due to his mental illness and was pushed to the point where he only wanted to die. He remembered the moment when he had reached the deepest point of the sickness.
Balvin revealed that he knew he had reached the endpoint when he did not want to do anything. He said that he always used to just cry for no reason. He had no desire to wake up, eat, or even live.
Balvin elaborated about his sickness and said that there came the point when he became so hopeless that he just felt strange wherever he went, and there were moments he felt that he was outside of his body. Balvin explained that he always had this problem of shaking since the time he was a child, and it was not until he became an adult that he realized that it was anxiety.
However, the biggest problem was the fact that he was not able to ask for help because he thought everyone would think that he was just “crazy.”
He remembered himself being in bed for five days with a desire to just disappear from this world. Of course, it is never easy to just disappear; you have to put yourself under extreme pain, which he, like most of the suicidal patients, didn’t want to. He was not even famous at that time, and his family became devastated because of his condition.
J. Balvin revealed that he had given up on his career despite the fact that he was a lover of music.
There is a happy ending in this story. The star of the song, Mi Gente, finally went to see the doctor and took some tablets, which did help him. He now hopes that families will take inspiration from his story, and the whole world will finally move on from the stigma surrounding mental health problems.
He shared that he talks to his kids a lot of the time and advises them not to believe everything they see on Instagram. He also addressed the people going through the same negative emotion. He also advised them not to open the Instagram feed during their hard time.
Balvin then went on to say that we should never compare ourselves to anyone, and he always tells his kids to never be afraid of their identity. Everyone should be proud of who they are and every aspect of their personality, including their color, political opinions, ethnicity, sexuality, and career.
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