Mental Health & Pop Culture
Celebrities with Mental Illness
Kendall Jenner
Model
Kendall Jenner openly has talked about her experiences with anxiety that started when she was a little girl in various interviews. Revealing the pains she went through and how she learned to cope with them.
Chris Evans
Actor
Chris Evans opened up to a crowd about his experiences with anxiety and depression during his career; the unseen suffering behind the superhero costume, and how he began to reclaim his confidence and wellness through the character.
Selena Gomez
Singer, Actress
Selena Gomez discusses her suffering from various mental illnesses along with physical sickness in the documentary film “Selena Gomez: My Mind &Me”, including her anxiety about her own body as she became famous at a very young age, and the significant Bipolar Disorder she was diagnosed with.
Ben Chilwell
Footballer
The well-known English football player Ben Chilwell opened up to the press about his experience of mentally suffering after physical injuries. In the interview, he said that mental health among athletes has not been adresses of well due to various factors including social stigma. During the interview, he urges the elimination of those stigma as all athletes eventually encounter periods of a career life that aren’t perfectly wanted.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor
Madison Beer
Singer
Despite all the success in Leonardo DiCaprio's career, he disclosed his struggle with the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder that he has fought throughout it. He shared a few key tips for fighting mental disorders, which include the initial action of reaches out, and the dedication to treatment, as it is not something that can be easily fixed with a single tablet or pill.
In the interview after the release of her album “Life Supports,” Madison Beer reveals her experiences with mental illness from a very young age. As a teen pop star, she went through many difficult moments in her early life from unfiltered cyber violence, which has negatively contributed to her mental wellness, including the onset of the Borderline Personality Disorder she was diagnosed with during the “Life Support” era.
Media with Good Representation of Teenage Mental Health
13 Reason Why
Series
TRIGGER WARNING
The famous but controversial series "13 Reasons Why" directed by Tom McCarthy is a story narrated by a teenage girl Hannah Baker through the cassette tapes she left after her suicide. Over the course of 4 seasons, the series discusses more than just teen suicide, but the after-effects on people around her, as well as many other possible mental struggles and the causes of them
Black Swan
Movie
The psychological horror movie Black Swan recorded the story of a ballerina’s various mental and physical pain through her endless pursuit of certain character in the play. Although the story wasn’t perfectly demonstrate mental struggles of teenagers, it does reflect many issues teenagers face nowadays.
To the Bone
Movie
The movie included a 20-year old girl played by Lily Colins and her journey with an eating disorder, which is a common illness among teenagers. Due to many factors, mainly from the societal perspective, teenagers experience eating disorders that can lead to many other strugglesin life.
13 Reason Why : Beyond The Reasons
Series
As extra content following the original series “13 Reasons Why”, “Beyond The Reasons” played an important role in connecting the story and the characters with reality, including how certain characters could make better decisions to avoid what happened to them afterward? How teens can protect themselves better if put into one of their positions?
The Half of It
Memoir Book
The Half of It is a memoir book written by Madison Beer in May 2023, just a few months before the 10th anniversary of her career as a pop star. The book allows the audience to see behind the scenes of this 10-year journey, includes many vulnerable and genuine thoughts of her experience, from the private video leaking, being dropped by her record label, and cyberbullying, and many other career and personal obstacles.
Euphoria
Series
TRIGGER WARNING
One of the most successful series in recent years, Euphoria presented a vary of relatable and authentic reality for teenagers and young adults. Issues from sexual violence, relationship concerns, abusive parents or partners, cyberbullying, substance abuse, and a wide variety of mental disorders are shown to the audience,and the dramatic production and visual presentation, the series successfully addresses the severity of all the issues listed above.