The impact of the pandemic on mental health did not go unnoticed by Kristen Bell, who admits to being “struggling” in a new Instagram post.
“I’ve been fighting for the last 2 weeks, for who-knows-why-bar-ALL-the-reasons,” Gossip Girl star wrote Wednesday night. “Today I finally returned to [treadmill], figuratively and literally. And I am proud. “Good job, kb,” I said to myself. For anyone who is feeling the same, you can do this. Just do the next thing right. I love U. Xo. Bell, pictured without makeup and in training mode, topped her post with # mental health and # mental health.
The post received 10,000 empathetic comments, including “The same one here” and “I’m with you”. As someone added: “One day, one sweat at a time”.
Although President Joe Biden is about to sign a series of executive orders targeting the coronavirus pandemic (including asking Americans to wear masks and administer 100 million vaccines, both in the next 100 days), the psychological and economic effects of last year remain evident: According to the October findings published by the American Psychological Association and Harris Poll, 78 percent of people consider the coronavirus pandemic to be a serious stressor, with 19 percent reporting worsening mental health compared to 2019.
In 2016, Bell revealed his diagnosis of depression in a 2016 Time essay, arguing: “Mental health exams should be as routine as going to the doctor or dentist.” And since then she has moved on to de-stigmatize such topics, including couples therapy she has attended with Dax Shepard, 46, her husband for seven years and father of her two daughters: Delta, 6, and Lincoln, 7.
“We learned everything about each other because we couldn’t leave!” Bell recently said People during the quarantine, praising the thinking leader and Indomitable author Glennon Doyle for guidance. “We just need to grace each other in the circumstances.”
Bell also admitted that he needs a careful reboot: “Everyone’s trends are sort of bubbling up because we’re all caged together,” she told the outlet. “Dax and I, when we started this pandemic, we were at a point in our marriage where we definitely needed a little touch up on therapy.”
She added: “Every two years, we think, ‘We are being very antagonistic’ and we don’t want that. We go back to therapy and find out what I’m not doing best for you and what you’re not doing best for me, and how we can better serve that team goal. It has been extremely useful. “
The couple and co-founders of the Hello Bello baby product line are advocates of couple therapy. “There is such a negative connotation,” said Dax once Good storage. “In my previous relationship, we went to couples therapy at the end, and it’s usually too late. You can’t go after nine years and start finding out what patterns you are in.”
Last year, when Shepard relapsed after kicking a drug addiction 16 years earlier (which he revealed on his podcast Armchair specialist), the couple relied on therapy. Bell supported her husband because, as she told Ellen DeGeneres, “he is very worthwhile”.
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