Camila Cabello Opens Up About Discussing Mental Health in the Latin Community
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While Camila Cabello is currently riding the high of releasing her third studio album, Familia, she's also getting candid about her experiences with anxiety and prioritizing mental health throughout her career. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the singer opened up about how her new album transformed her personal relationships and helped preserve her mental health.
"It just made me so much more open and vulnerable in my friendships, and then in my performances, and then in my interviews," the 25-year-old singer explained. "It had this domino effect on every other area of my life." Camila also discussed the importance of discussing mental health in the Latinx community. "Having these conversations — especially in the Latin community — I feel like I want to talk about it more in Spanish and with that community too," she said. "Even talking about it with my family, it's so different."
In April, Camila opened up about experiencing "paralyzing" anxiety that made her life "so bad" during an interview for E!'s Daily Pop. The singer revealed that her latest record feels more "vulnerable" and that it was the first time she talked about topics she'd "only ever talked to [her] mom and [her] therapist about," including her departure from Fifth Harmony and break up with Shawn Mendes.
"There was a time where my anxiety felt so bad, I was like, 'I don't feel like I can go in the studio. I don't feel like I can work,'" Camila said. "The only way for me to go to work every day was to be honest and be myself... and if I didn't go to work and was just waiting for myself to feel better before I did that… it's just a paralyzing feeling."
The "Bam Bam" singer also opened up about her mental health journey and how she hit a "breaking point" which led her to seek professional help. "My life was so bad and so painful that I was like, 'If you tell me that eating sh-t off the ground will make me feel better, I will do it,'" she explained. "So, I was like, 'Yes, of course, therapy. All of it.'"
Camila has openly used her platform to raise awareness for mental health issues and seeking therapy. In 2021, the singer talked about how she had "crippling anxiety" at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic on Apple's Fitness+ Time to Walk series. "Before the pandemic, I felt really burnt out. I had been working pretty nonstop since I was 15. And the rigor with which I started working, there was just no time off," she said. "Pile that onto struggles with mental health, with anxiety, with these toxic levels of stress, it wasn't even a meltdown because I would just work through it." Camila said that she eventually asked for help and for the time to try therapy. "I tried a lot of different things, different kinds of therapy, meditation, exercise, changing the way I eat, definitely changing the way I schedule my time and making sure that there's balance, that I have time for friendships and connection with people and I'm not just nose to the grindstone, not paying attention to my body and my needs."
If you or someone you know is struggling with mental illness, you can call the National Alliance on Mental Illness HelpLine at 1-(800)-950-NAMI (6264) or visit their website.
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