Selena Gomez Reveals She Has Bipolar Disorder To Miley Cyrus During Instagram Show

When it comes to health, there’s no denying that Selena Gomez has the right idea. The mental health advocate has done everything from opening up about her stints in rehab to her experience dealing with Lupus. Back, in 2018 Gomez took a public break from her music career. The singer had been traveling her for Revival world tour when she announced her decision to take a break to focus on her health. She cited anxiety, panic attacks and depression as side effects to her lupus diagnosis and expressed her need to take care of her health. Months later, Gomez revealed that her departure from the spotlight had been because of a need for a kidney transplant, which obtained due to complications from Lupus.

Now Gomez is opening up further about her mental health, this time speaking openly about a recent diagnosis.

Gomez says she was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder during a conversation on social media with Miley Cyrus.

Speaking to Cyrus about her mental health, Gomez explained that recently she had visited “one of the best mental hospitals in America, McLean Hospital, and I discussed that after years of going through a lot of different things, I realized that I was bipolar. And so when I got to know more information, it actually helps me. It doesn’t scare me once I know it.”

Gomez went onto further explain her experience with mental health, by sharing issues within her own family.

“I’ve seen some of it even in my own family, where I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’ I’m from Texas. It’s just not known to talk about mental health,” Gomez explained. “You got to seem cool. And then I see anger built up in children and teenagers or whatever young adults because they are wanting that so badly. I just feel like when I finally said what I was going to say, I wanted to know everything about it. And it took the fear away.”

Gomez and Cyrus reconnected on Instagram and opened up about self-isolation in the time of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Speaking about handling quarantine-life during this time, Cyrus explained “A lot of it is connecting with people that maybe you haven’t been the greatest to that you may not have thought about,” she said. “I feel like there’s been a lot of people I’ve gotten to do that with not necessarily saying it was bad, but just saying, ‘Hey, I hope you’re safe. I hope you’re doing okay,’ and that you know you’re on my side. I’m only sending you love from this end.'”