. Through all of this, Selena has contributed to breaking down the stigma surrounding mental illness, but her new honesty about medication takes that to a new level.
While it's slowly becoming more common to hear people speaking openly about their mental health, talk of medication remains taboo. In reality, treating your mental health with medication is the same as taking medication for any other ailment. Selena's openness about her mental health treatment can help degrade that stigma, which could increase access to proper treatment for more and more people.
Selena isn't the only celebrity to open up about mental health medication recently. Lady Gaga recently"Medicine really helped me," Gaga. "A lot of people are afraid of medicine for their brains to help them. I really want to erase the stigma around this." Now that she's found a good treatment plan for her mental health, Selena said she's feeling like her old self again — a feeling she likes.
“I remember Taylor [Swift] said when I played her some of the new songs, ‘I feel like I’m seeing who you were before this,'” she said. “That makes me happy. I like feeling like that girl again.”