Jennifer Lopez Got Candid About Her Exhaustion-Induced Panic Attack

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not super human is a reality she herself sometimes forgets. In her email newsletter On the J.Lo, the superstar artist opens up about why that's such a dangerous error to make. “There was a time in my life where I used to sleep 3 to 5 hours a night," she writes. "I’d be on set all day and in the studio all night and doing junkets and filming videos on the weekends.

I was in my late twenties and I thought I was invincible.” (Didn't we all.) She continues, “Until one day, I was sitting in a trailer, and all the work and the stress it brought with it, coupled with not enough sleep to recuperate mentally, caught up with me.” writes that she went from feeling perfectly normal in one moment to completely frozen in the next. “I found myself feeling physically paralyzed, I couldn’t see clearly and then the physical symptoms I was having started to scare me and the fear compounded itself.

Now I know it was a classic panic attack brought on by , but I had never even heard the term at the time.” J. Lo leaving the gym in 2018.Luckily, Lopez says she was taken to the doctor by her security guard.

She recalls feeling terrified that she was losing her mind. “[The doctor] said, 'No, you’re not crazy. You need sleep ... get 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night, don’t drink caffeine, and make sure you get your workouts in if you're going to do this much work.' I realized how serious the consequences could be of ignoring what my body and mind needed to be healthy.”She's heeded the doctor's advice well: In 2020, she told that she combatted pandemic-related depression by staying active. “It's more important on the days that you feel bad that you get up and do something,” she said.