Christina Applegate Quells Concern Over Her “I Don’t Enjoy Living” Comment: “I’m Not Sitting Here On Suicide Watch”
deadline.comChristina Applegate‘s comment earlier this month that she doesn’t enjoy living anymore following her MS diagnosis caused concern among many for the Dead to Me star.
In the June 4 episode of her MeSsy podcast with fellow MS survivor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Applegate candidly told listeners, “A real, fuck-it-all depression — like, a real depression, where it’s kind of scaring me too a little bit because it feels really fatalistic, it feels really ‘end of,’” Applegate said on MeSsy. “I don’t mean that, but I’m trapped in this darkness right now that I haven’t felt in probably 20-something years.” She continued, “I don’t enjoy living.
I don’t enjoy it. I don’t enjoy things anymore.” The Married with Childrenalum addressed the comments in her latest episode of MeSsy. “I was talking about some dark stuff that I was thinking and feeling,” she said. “I feel like when we hold things in we give them power.
I also think that there’s so much shame a lot of people feel when they’re going through mental health issues … and when people holds those in, because they’re so afraid to say how they truly feel, we give it immense power.” She added, it’s “incredibly healing and important to be able to express the thoughts, whether that makes someone uncomfortable or not.” Applegate and Sigler started their podcast so they could share what it’s like living with MS. “By making such a big deal about it you’re making other people think, ‘Oh, s—, I can’t talk about this.’ And that is not OK with me,” Applegate continued. “It’s important to be able to say these things.
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