Taking care of your mental health is just as important as taking care of your physical health. There is a stigma around mental health, unfortunately, so talking about it is more important than ever.
Bridgerton star Ruby Barker, opened up about her hospitalization for mental health. She posted a video on her Instagram page and captioned the video, “Mental health week is every week for me. Off my chest. I feel like I’ve not been completely honest so this is for my followers. Time to be transparent. I’ve been struggling since Bridgerton, this is the truth. Thank you all for supporting me, your love holds me up. #mentalhealthawareness.”
“I just want to be honest with everybody, I have been struggling,” she said in the video. “So, I’m in the hospital at the minute, I’m gonna get discharged soon and hopefully get to continue with my life and I’m gonna take a little bit of a break from myself. And I want to encourage others, if you are struggling, please do yourself a favor. Take a break, stop being so hard on yourself. And people used to always tell me not to be so hard on myself, and I never really, really knew what that meant.”
We’re thankful for her transparency and her openness. It takes an extreme amount of strength and courage to be honest with yourself and know that you need help and to seek the help that you need.
“Stop being so hard on yourself,” she said. “People used to always tell me not to be so hard on myself, and I never really, really knew what that meant. What does that really mean stop being hard on yourself or to love yourself?….You hear these buzzwords, catchphrases and the world can be such a confusing place. And you’re trying to do you at the same time as having all these existential threats. You know, it is mad out here….And sometimes, you just gotta take a break and you gotta say, ‘I can’t do this right now. I need support.'”
We need to forgive ourselves and allow ourselves the grace of time for ourselves and the grace of forgiving ourselves for things that have happened and things that haven’t.
“I was carrying the weight of the world on my back,” Ruby added. “And now, I’m at a point where I have a diagnosis, and I will talk to you about that at another time. But I have a diagnosis, and I am relinquishing myself and forgiving myself and drawing a line in the sand. I can’t carry on the way that I’ve been carrying on. I need to change. So, that’s what I’m trying to do.”
“I want to survive, and I will survive and I’m going to and so are you. That’s the beauty of it. So are you. If you’re with me, you’re in good hands.” she added.
Thank you Ruby, we love you and we support you. We’re with you.
