Frankie Bridge has explained she has decided to start taking anti-anxiety medication to help her mental health.
The Saturdays star has always been open about her experiences with depression and anxiety, and in the past has taken medication.
But after a period without, the mum of two has revealed she started taking anti-anxiety drugs this year after struggling during the global pandemic.
Struggling: Frankie Bridge has explained she has decided to start taking anti-anxiety medication to help her mental health
Frankie, 31, took part in an Instagram question and answer with her 1.2m followers on Wednesday, where one fan asked her if she had changed anything to support her mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘Mainly exercise tbh. But it’s not always easy. I’m trying to be disciplined rather than rely on motivation,’ Frankie explained, before adding: ‘Recently started anti anxiety medication again and added other coping strategies including ‘trying to avoid the news when I can and staying in touch with friends and family as much as poss.’
Frankie has spoken openly about her mental health, and in the past revealed she suffered a breakdown during the height of her singing career with The Saturdays.
She also recently published a bestselling book, Open, which discusses her experiences, including the time she had to be hospitalised with depression in 2011.
Open: The Saturdays star has always been open about her experiences with depression and anxiety, revealing in a new Q&A that she is back on medication
Speaking to the MailOnline earlier this year, the star explained that while she found lockdown relatively easy, she did have anxiety about it coming to an end over the summer.
She said: ‘It wasn’t too bad for me. It took away any of my anxieties. Not leaving the house or not stressing about any social anxieties or anything like that.
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‘My anxiety was more about coming out of lockdown. Change is hard. I am someone that suffers from anxiety and there will be people who won’t suffer from it usually that will at the moment. You just have to be kind to yourself right now.
Family plans? Elsewhere in Wednesday’s Q&A, Frankie admitted she’s been feeling broody since her sister Tor welcomed twin sons earlier this month
‘You just have to accept the rules that are being given. If you stick to those, I think you feel safe and you have to accept that things are put in place to help you feel safe but also, be easy on yourself.’
She added: ‘It’s hard to kind of get up and have a point to each day. To be forced to slow down like that, it takes a while to ease into it.
‘I think it was hard. But after a while I just thought, this is the time to break the routine. We’ve been forced into this situation.’
Sweet: The proud mum and aunt also shared a snap of her two sons Parker and Cater meeting their cousins, as she said the photo ‘fills my heart with so much love’
Elsewhere in Wednesday’s Q&A, Frankie admitted she’s been feeling broody since her sister Tor welcomed twin sons earlier this month.
Gushing about her new nephews alongside a sweet photo of her and husband Wayne Bridge, 40. holding the newborns, Frankie wrote:
‘I’m always broody. But I’m not 100% sure I want another one. I just don’t feel done and don’t want a definite no. I think I just like to know it’s an option. I’m still young. So still time.’
Honest: The candid Q&a also saw Frankie address her body confidence issues following the birth of her two sons
Mum life: The star opened on her ongoing battle with mum guilt, admitting she is ‘always questioning if I’m good enough’
Source: Daily Mail
