10 Celebrities Who Have Been Recognized With OCD

Discover out what these stars needed to say about their prognosis…

Amanda Seyfried has been coping with OCD for a lot of her life that has manifested as well being anxiousness. Whereas she says the “compulsive ideas and fears” have diminished loads as she’s gotten older, she nonetheless takes a low dosage of a drugs to assist her cope along with her signs. Whereas discussing her battle with OCD, Amanda stated she believed that psychological well being “must be taken as significantly as the rest” though it’s one thing you possibly can’t see.

“I’m on Lexapro, and I’ll by no means get off of it. I’ve been on it since I used to be 19, so 11 years. I’m on the bottom dose. I don’t see the purpose of getting off of it. Whether or not it’s placebo or not, I don’t wish to threat it. And what are you combating towards? Simply the stigma of utilizing a software?” Amanda shared with Attract.

She continued, “A psychological sickness is a factor that individuals solid in a unique class [from other illnesses], however I don’t assume it’s. It must be taken as significantly as the rest. You don’t see the psychological sickness: It’s not a mass; it’s not a cyst. Nevertheless it’s there. Why do you’ll want to show it? Should you can deal with it, you deal with it.”

For years, David Beckham has handled signs of OCD that manifest in a necessity for cleanliness and for his possessions to be organized in a really particular manner. Whereas he admits it may be tiring, he says he feels compelled to observe by means of so as to ease his thoughts.

“The truth that when everybody’s in mattress I then go round, clear the candles, flip the lights on to the suitable setting, be sure that in every single place is tidy. I hate coming down within the morning, and there’s cups and plates and, you already know, bowls. I clip the candle wax, I clear the glass, that’s my pet hate, the smoke across the inside a candle… I do know, it’s bizarre,” he shared in his Beckham documentary.

Camila Cabello has lengthy been open about her struggles with psychological well being, as soon as sharing that as an adolescent, she used to get up with “a super-accelerated heartbeat and actually unfavorable, intrusive, compulsive ideas” from her “uncontrolled” OCD. Since then, she’s been in a position to search assist and has learn books that assist her perceive that her intrusive ideas aren’t actual. Now, she says she’s even in a position to snicker about it.

“OCD is bizarre. I snicker about it now,” she advised Cosmopolitan UK. “All people has other ways of dealing with stress. And, for me, if I get actually confused about one thing, I’ll begin to have the identical thought time and again, and regardless of what number of occasions I get to the decision, I really feel like one thing dangerous is about to occur if I do not maintain fascinated about it.”

She continued, “Once I discovered, and [learned] easy methods to step again from it, it made me really feel so significantly better. I really feel a lot extra answerable for it now. To the purpose the place I’m similar to, ‘Aha! OK, that is simply my OCD.’ I’ll ask my mother a query for the fourth time and he or she’ll be like, ‘That’s OCD. You’ve bought to let it go.’”

For Howie Mandel, he’s been coping with OCD all his life, writing in his memoir Here is the Deal: Don’t Contact Me that he believes all of it might have stemmed from a childhood incident with bugs. Since then, his OCD signs have manifested as a worry of germs — however he wasn’t truly recognized till he was in his 40s.

Reflecting on his psychological well being struggles, Howie admits that life is usually like “residing in a nightmare” and he can simply fall right into a “darkish despair” however he tries to “anchor” himself with the assistance of his household and his profession. He says comedy “saved” him and his “coping talent is discovering the humorous.”

“There isn’t a waking second of my life when ‘we may die’ doesn’t come into my psyche. However the solace I might get could be the truth that all people round me was okay. It’s good to latch onto,” he advised Individuals.

He continued, “If I’m not laughing, then I’m crying. And I nonetheless haven’t been that open about how darkish and ugly it actually will get. I’m most snug onstage. And when I haven’t got something to do, I flip inward — and that’s not good…My life’s mission is to take away the stigma. I’m damaged, however that is my actuality. I do know there’s going to be darkness once more — and I cherish each second of sunshine.”

Charlize Theron has OCD however she says she tries to make use of it to her benefit. Though she admits it may be slightly bit traumatic when her kids go away a path of glitter round the home, she additionally makes use of her obsessive nature to essentially give attention to her profession.

“I’m positively obsessive. I’m on a job proper now, and I’m obsessive concerning the martial arts I’m studying. I stand up at 4 a.m. to do it. I lie in mattress at evening fascinated about the totally different hand positions,” she advised Marie Claire in 2019.

She continued, “Obsessing is nice for me. I’m very targeted on the stuff that I actually care about, however I do battle with a little bit of OCD. So I’ve to prepare issues that I can see: closets, drawers. That has to do with once I really feel that issues I can’t see are uncontrolled.”

Lili Reinhart has lengthy been open about her psychological well being battle as she was in elementary faculty when she was recognized with OCD. Lili, who additionally offers with physique dysmorphia, opened up about her battle on social media whereas talking out about what she perceives because the glorification of utmost thinness in Hollywood. Lili posted on X (beforehand Twitter) that she had lately been hyper fixated on the dimensions of her arms which she believes was her physique dysmorphia being amplified by OCD.

“My physique dysmorphia has been going loopy as a result of I really feel like my arms have to be half the dimensions they’re at the moment?  We’ve glamorized these skinny arms that, for many of us, can solely be achieved if you happen to’re a literal adolescent,” Lili wrote.

She added, “I actually marvel how anybody survives or will get by means of this life with out having extreme BD. Possibly it is a merciless amplified model together with my OCD, however rattling. The period of time I’ve wasted fascinated about my arms in the previous few months is insane.”

Again in 2010, Megan Fox opened up about her OCD prognosis, sharing that she struggled with “grime” and shared public areas like restrooms and eating places. She advised Attract that she couldn’t use cutlery that she knew different folks had as soon as used, explaining that she couldn’t assist however take into consideration all of the micro organism. However after welcoming her first youngster, Megan shared that her OCD signs had gotten considerably higher.

“I believe Brian [Austin Green] was ready to see what I might do [during the birth], as a result of, you already know, once they come out they’re lined in every kind of stuff. I took him proper on my chest and, from that second, nothing he does freaks me out. I don’t wish to give him a posh. [The anxiety] has been considerably higher since he was born. I might say, like, 80% higher. Which is good,” she advised Marie Claire.

It wasn’t till Jessie J was 36 that she was formally recognized with OCD and ADHD. On social media, she defined that she started actually noticing her signs after welcoming her son in 2023 however had at all times felt “slightly totally different” all through her life. Whereas she says the prognosis has made her rethink many facets of her life — from how she works to how she loves others — she says she feels it may be a “superpower so long as you take a look at it from the suitable perspective.”

“It’s empowered me and truthfully typically has overwhelmed me all on the identical time,” she wrote. “If there may be one factor social media has given me, it’s the possibility to narrate, join and heal with strangers which have variety hearts and are going by means of the same factor. I’ve at all times been sincere within the journey I’m going by means of in life.”

She later added, “It has made me love myself much more. I’m hugging 11 12 months outdated me. Who would clear her trainers with a toothbrush when she was confused and to at the present time has lived with a 1000 lists to not really feel like life will crumble 😂 Right here’s to attending to know your self much more by means of life. And loving your self all the way in which. Nothing in life defines us, nevertheless it helps us develop and change into a extra healthful model of ourselves.”

Will Poulter has struggled along with his psychological well being his complete life and was recognized with OCD when he was a younger teenager. He remembers having “intrusive ideas” as a baby and listening to a voice in his head saying “if I didn’t stroll on sure paving stones on the way in which as much as my mum and pop’s home, one thing horrible was going to occur to them.” He fortunately was in a position to begin working with a therapist who has helped him take care of the dysfunction.

“I used to be actually fortunate. I bought entry to remedy in my early teenagers. I used to be in all probability 14 once I first began experiencing obsessive-compulsive ideas and the ruminations, and intrusive ideas,” he stated on Fearne Cotton’s Completely satisfied Place podcast. “Till it was recognized and till I obtained that remedy, I simply thought I used to be completely alone with this situation, or not even situation at the moment, this mind-set, with this defunct mind. I used to be so scared. And that, I believe, is the scariest factor about any psychological well being points, and you’ll by no means underestimate how alone somebody can really feel of their state.”

Lena Dunham admits she spent her childhood being frightened of the world, laying awake at evening obsessing over issues like illnesses, unsafe meals, and dying. When she was round 9, she learn an article in {a magazine} a few girl with OCD and at last linked with somebody, receiving her personal prognosis shortly after. Her household helped her search remedy and he or she discovered to meditate to deal with her signs. Whereas she nonetheless offers with OCD, she says she’s grateful her dad and mom stepped in once they did.

“I really feel so fortunate that my dad and mom had been individuals who had been snug with remedy, with medicine and conversations about anxiousness. I might inform my youthful self that there’s no disgrace in asking a instructor for assist, telling a buddy that you just’re uncomfortable and that it’s simply the identical as falling down and scraping your knee,” she shared with the Baby Thoughts Institute.

She continued, “[I also want my younger self] to know that I’m not alone. There are such a lot of different youngsters like me who’re struggling this manner and the best factor I can do for them and myself is to be sincere.”