in the Netflix series, revealed she'd been battling with her mental health since the show and was receiving treatment after being hospitalized."I am better," she says as she begins the first video, posted May 25 while she was receiving treatment in the hospital. In a follow-up video, posted May 30, Barker updated fans and followers with the news that she had been released from the hospital.
". . . if you are struggling, please do yourself a favor. Take a break, stop being so hard on yourself." "I just want to be honest with everybody, I have been struggling," Barker says in her first video. She continues,"I'm gonna take a little bit of a break from myself and I want to encourage others, if you are struggling, please do yourself a favor. Take a break, stop being so hard on yourself. People used to always tell me not to be so hard on myself, and I never really, really knew what that meant.
Barker continues to encourage the change in dialogue around mental health, sharing she had previously been"rage-filled, frustrated, angry" from intergenerational trauma, but had sought help, and now is able to face her diagnosis and open up about what she's been going through. "I'm at a point where I have a diagnosis, and I will talk to you about that at another time," Barker says."But I have a diagnosis, and I am relinquishing myself and forgiving myself and drawing a line in the sand. I can't carry on the way that I've been carrying on. I need to change. So that's what I'm trying to do."