Kristen Bell Is Depressed

Just when you thought the politically perfect Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell life partnership was the stuff of Sears sweater commercial, they pivot right into mental illness confessions. A couple weeks ago Shepard confided in the world that a neighbor kid once stuck his hand down Shepard’s pants when he was seven. Shepard thought that made him gay. But it turned out he only looked super gay. He battled the junior handjob incident with booze and cocaine for fifteen years.

Kristen Bell is now being forced by her own conscious to reveal that she has suffered from anxiety and depression since her teen years. She notes that she lacked confidence in high school and often did things just to please other people or go along with the crowd. Imagine suffering that existence in high school.

I shatter a little bit when I think people don’t like me. That’s part of why I lead with kindness and I compensate by being very bubbly all the time because it really hurts my feelings when I know I’m not liked. And I know that’s not very healthy and I fight it all the time.

Bell treats her severe condition with SSRI’s and suffers the victimization that goes along with the prescription:

If you do decide to go on a prescription to help yourself, understand that the world wants to shame you for that, but in the medical community, you would never deny a diabetic his insulin. But for some reason, when someone needs a serotonin inhibitor, they’re immediately crazy or something.

Though the world didn’t know you were on anti-depressants until you just mentioned it. You could really use a logic tree on shaming.

Twenty-five percent of Americans in Bell’s demographic are on prescription anti-depressants. That number rises to one-hundred percent in her zip code. Most legitimate doctors believe that’s at least three times the number truly requiring the drugs based on medical diagnosis. Some people getting their medical marijuana cards really do suffer from glaucoma and undiagnosed neck and back pain. Others are just prepping for grad night. 

It’s unclear how Bell’s current admission is going to help other people, but it has helped resolved the issue of how a doofus like Dax Shepard scored such a hot wife. Once you find out the overachieving guy doesn’t come from money, it becomes a real bit of research. 

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