In an attempt to help others, Demi Lovato The use of substances, suicide thoughts, bipolar disorder and disorder have been opened-and despite his fight with co-cosmic disorders, he has found happiness, hope and purpose.

Her wire-rimed round glasses, long brown hair and gap-toothed green, lovato, 32, avoided, zigled, and dancing next to the purple dinosaurs on popular kids show Bernie and friends At the age of just 8. Although he was publicly singing in the PBS program about the calculation and learning of the size, he was secretly thinking of dying due to suicide.

The role of Disney-Star came up with the role then Bell, Sony with a chance And Camp rock The movie franchise, where he had the opportunity to sing the fans to a bigger crowd and saw himself awakening professional and social stress that used substances to deal with him.

Lovato said In a conversation With Dr. Charlie Shaffer In June 2021, the New York-PressBtorians Center for Youth Mental Health-e-No-Lovoto Performance and his pain in the song song.

Open to stay calm for a six -year -old stint, he was just as open to his 2018 "Sobar" song and return to abuse: "The tremors disappear and the cold sweat disappear / I am very sorry from the moma," I am not rarely, "I rarely," And July 24, 2018, Hero, and Fent. Did and the victim of stroke and heart attack, he published in 2021 YouTube documentary Demi Lovato: Dancing with the devilThe “The physicians told me that I had five to 10 minutes"He said during an interview in March 2021 CBS Sunday morningThe "Like, if no one found me I wouldn't be here. And I am grateful that I'm sitting here today."

The singer and the lyricist, who managed the 2024 Hulu documentary Child starWhich experienced other kids who have entered the show business at a very young age experience through interviews and stories, Now employed Canadian Jute (Birth Jordan Luts) and to talk about his co-existent disorder and continue the journey through it. Lovato said "Love is the biggest gift we can get in this lifetime," Today Do the show in February 2024. "It is so rewarded to find love and of course all the troubles I have come through and the heartbreaking seems valuable for it."

He said, "I feel happier than ever. I'm in such a big place."

The struggles started early

Panel for the World Mental Health Day Festival in New York, October 10, 2024 said, "I have dealt with disappointment for the first time." "This was my age that I was the first suicide ideal."

In the seventh grade, he left public school after killing his classmates, who wrote a letter that Lovato "should kill himself", he remembered in a September 2024 interview AdolescentThe "And they passed it around the school and the people signed it," he said. "And so, whether they wish it to be or not, it became like a suicide application. It was a really dark time for me

Why did he try cocaine at the age of 17

He threatened the threat he got in the seventh grade and he felt like his outcast even after he left the middle school, he revealed in his 2017 YouTube documentary SimplyThe When she was trying to deal with the feelings of isolation and pain, she wanted a popular girl who surrounded friends and who “party” and started abusing alcohol.

By 20, Lovato was on the Disney Channel and some friends offered him cocaine. "I was scared because my mother always told me that if you do it, your heart can only burst but I did it anyway," she said in the documentary. "And I liked it." Hiding his pain with the abuse of alcohol and the use of substances became a part of his daily routine.

She says Access to Hollywood At 20, "I couldn't go from 30 minutes to an hour without cocaine, and I used to bring it to the planes i

Learn about bipolar disorder - and treat it

After going to the convenience of the treatment, "At the age of 18, I was caught in the bipolar disorder," he said Excessive In 20 2016. He said that he wanted to do more to change the negative stigma: "For me, (bipartisan disorder) presents something to me, it doesn't present who I am."

More burden on this disorder brought him a measure of peace. "There was a lot of sleepless nights, there was a lot of tears, and why I didn't know why I was feeling that way," Lovato said at the World Mental Health Day Festival in 2021.

And he says that looking for the right drugs was also the key. "Medication is a thing that has done wonderful things for me, especially bipolar," he said AdolescentThe “When I first became a lawyer in favor of my mental health and other people's mental health, I realized that sometimes a diagnosis, it takes 10 years to get the correct diagnosis and

He also said: "I realized that it was a bipolar disorder for so many years.

In 2021, he said The health of women Since looking for more healthy ways to manage the diagnosis without relying on the abuse of the substance, he wanted women to know "It is good to survive, feel good and feel happiness with the bipolar disorder or any mental illness they are fighting". "

Multiple rehabilitation facilities - and fought with chaotic eating

Lovato has published from 20 to 25 2016 SimplyHe got therapy and support in treatment. "It was hard to be quiet," he said Glamor In an interview in 2016. "I went to rehab, I came out, and I wasn't quiet. I had trouble occasionally." When he shared multiple social media posts about being perfect, he was struggling with chaos, and in the documentary said "Food is the biggest challenge of my life i

At its 2024 Adolescent Interviewer, Lovato said inspiration behind his social media series Cooked with Demi He had an ongoing fight with problems around eating chaos and food. "The biggest reason I set foot in the kitchen is my recovery with food," he said. "When I set foot in the grocery store for the first time I had to treat my eating disorder, they took us out ... and we went to buy the material for a recipe and and and I just recovered with emotion, I was overwhelmed and overwhelmed by the food that I just broke and cried.

"From that place to go to the grocery store now, find the ingredients itself and cook them for themselves and my loved ones ... it's the final F-I don't let it win it."

When he asked others to jump in the same struggle, he said, "It's so hard to overcome these things, but it is so valuable.

Darken

"I think when I began to find the little things in life, hope began to shine on," he said in a conversation at the Youth Mental Health Center in June 2024. "And it was something that was so foreigner before me because I was so accustomed to, so accustomed to showing hope"

Before his fifth patient was treated, Lovato said "he knew what I needed to do, which was living in recovery," he said at this event. "Medication has helped me a lot. It helped a lot of people and I felt defeated, but when all the original parts began to fit in a perfect puzzle, I started to find the light again."

Throughout his recovery journey, Lovato said that he had learned not to define his mental health or treatment. "This is a part of what makes me a part of what makes me, which means my struggles have turned me into pottery today, but since then it has never been my identity," he added, he added that he added "I am grateful for what I have overcome."

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