Reese Witherspoon has opened up about the fact that she deals with anxiety. Beyond that, “The Morning Show” star has just revealed that she has consulted a hypnotist to manage the issue.
“Can we talk about our relationship to anxiety? Because I wanna hear tools that you’ve learned and what I’ve learned, and it’s real,” Witherspoon said while chatting on the Wednesday, September 17, episode of Las Culturistas podcast. She added, “I’m a high-anxiety person.”
Fortunately for the star, she has found something that works for her when it comes to managing her anxiety. She revealed to the podcast hosts Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, “I started doing some work with a hypnotist, and she actually works for this thing called neurolinguistic programming. So, it’s called NLP.”
Starting when she was 34 years old (she is 49 years old now), Witherspoon explained, “She helped me realize that I was going to get the same result, but I could get rid of all the anxiety in the middle.”
Witherspoon Has Tried Medication & Meditation for Her Anxiety
GettyIt turns out that the star has sought out a number of solutions to her anxiety-related issues. She said she “tried meditation, but admitted that it is “hard for [her] to listen.” She explained, “I also have, like, some ADD [attention deficit disorder or ADHD] stuff, so I can’t listen to stuff for very long.”
Witherspoon also tried medication, “Ativan to calm down,” however, it didn’t work out for the star. She revealed, “It would make me feel like a zombie.”
“I wasn’t performing at the level I wanted to, and I wasn’t as funny,” she admitted. At the same time, she was sure to add: “If you need medicine, please take the medicine … I’m not a doctor.”
She also explained, “I was like, why am I doing this? I don’t feel good. Or I take an Ativan, and I was sleepy. That actually changed my whole life. And I want people to know anxiety is real.”
Witherspoon Wishes She Could ‘Hug’ Others Dealing With Anxiety
GettyWitherspoon knows she’s not the only one who deals with anxiety issues. In fact, she witnesses others’ struggles online.
“I see girls going through it or guys going through it and they post videos, and … I wanna hug them,” Witherspoon told the podcast’s hosts.
“I want — [it] makes me wanna cry because it’s very real, and you’re not alone, and you can calm yourself down,” she added. “There’s tools to calm yourself down.”
