from 2008 to 2012 — noted that while she never experienced panic attacks “on set or at a photo shoot or during an interview,” she would feel the effects once she was “alone” and in “the slowdown moment.”
“I feel like I’m always [going] in order not to have to deal with things. I was always working and that was where I was kind of happy,” she explained. “And sothemselves and rear their ugly heads. Rather than going, ‘I should go to therapy for this,’ or, ‘Maybe this is something where I should really look internally and see what the issue is,’ I kind of said, ‘Alright, I can’t feel these things.’”Blood brothers and sisters! Beginning with 2008’s Twilight, fans were introduced to the Cullen coven.
Greene went to the doctor and was prescribed Klonopin “for emergencies,” which she claimed “worked for a while” but didn’t help her in “addressing what was happening underneath.” “Then I started having intrusive thoughts and it was still manifesting and bubbling underneath the surface because I hadn’t properly dealt with it,” she continued. “I didn’t look for therapy, I wasn’t talking to people [about] my feelings, I wasn’t looking at what was causing them. I was just going, ‘Oh, I can take this pill and cover it up.’ And that was a big problem for me.
Greene shared that many of her early coping mechanisms actually attributed to her increasing anxiety, including having “a night out” and going for “a drink” when she was feeling extra stressed.