‘Workaholic’ Idris Elba in therapy for year due to ‘unhealthy habits’

nypost.com:

appearing on the “Changes with Annie Macmanus” podcast. “In my therapy, I’ve been thinking a lot about changing, almost to the point of neuropaths [sic] being changed and shifting.”“It’s not because I don’t like myself or anything like that, it’s just because I have some unhealthy habits that have really formed,” continued the “Beast” star. “And I work in an industry that I’m rewarded for those unhealthy habits.”The Post reached out to Elba for comment.

In the process of seeking help, the “Luther” actor realized that “nothing extreme is good” and that “everything needs balance.” “I’m rewarded massively to be a workaholic [compared] to someone that’s like ‘Eh, I’m not going to see my family for six months’ and I’m in there grinding and making a new family and leave them,” he shared. “Those are pathways that I had to be like, ‘I’ve got to adjust.’”While on the podcast, Elba commented that he realized that a lot “of our childhood is really at the root of” who we become in life.

Elba also mentioned that he “definitely wants to” find activities to help him unwind, but admitted that he finds working incredibly relaxing.“The thing is, the things that make me relaxed end up being work,” the “Cats” actor added. “My studio in my house, I just love being in here.

I’ll open that laptop and be like ‘I don’t know what to make today’ and it’ll come out like this or that. And I’m exhilarated by that and also so relaxed by it.”“I could work 10 days on a film, underwater sequences holding my breath for six minutes, and come back and sit in [his studio] and [feel relaxed], more so than sitting on the sofa with the family — which is bad right?” the Golden Globe winner continued. “This is the part where I’ve got to normalize what makes me.