Selana Gomez discuss about her mental health during an appearance on Good Morning America. Image Source: ABC News
Selena Gomez has been off the internet for almost four years and she is thankful.
On her appearance on Good Morning America, the singer-actress Selena Gomez, who celebrated the launch of her new platform, "Wondermind," shared that she has been off the Internet for almost four years and that has been helpful for her mental health.
Selena explained that she has not used the Internet in four and a half years and that has changed her life for the better as she finds herself happy, present, and able to connect with more people. She added that although she understands how powerful and impactful the Internet is and has managed to do good things for people, for her, she gets important news from people in her life.
Selena Gomez has been candid about her relationship with social media and mental health issues that include bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety. She stated that she is very happy with the way she has been handling things right now and does not need to go online to know something. Although she is the second most followed person on Instagram, she explained during an interview with January of InStyle that there was a time when she was so indulged in social media that it became really dangerous for her.
Selena Gomez went on to explain that she found herself fulfilling the unrealistic beauty standards while she was addicted to social media and that being seen without makeup would make her conscious, but she acknowledged the problem and took charge of it and created a system where she would not have access to her social media passwords.
Staying off social media and not being able to read unnecessary comments from fans has helped the singer to be in a better place and create a healthy relationship with herself. With her new platform, "Wondermind," Selena Gomez is going to push the conversations related to mental health forward and states that she wants the platform to be a community that is for people to feel okay and not alone.
Wondermind’s co-founders and co-CEOs are Mandy Teefey and Daniella Pierson who is known for being the executive producer of Netflix's 13 Reasons Why, and co-founder of Newsette. Daniella Pierson mentioned that all three of them belong to different generations but they have bonded on one single point with is their passion and urge to do something about the stigma about mental health in society and that is how Wondermind was born. Selena also shared that when all three of them have had conversations about how they belong to different generations and their challenges with mental health issues are different and how they cope with them differently. These hard-hitting conversations made them realize that the platform for Mental Health is needed right now more than ever because it is something that has a no-one-size-fits-all approach.
Daniella Pierson shared that with the platform, they do not want people to think that they are therapists, absolutely not, and would encourage them to seek professional help and the platform is just like a personal trainer on which audience or the people who would love to join can rely on as it tends to provide easy, doable techniques to put one's mental fitness as the priority every single day.
Selena Gomez adds that the platform is going to help people exercise their brain and mental health just like they do with their bodies and on asking how does she practice mental fitness, the Rare Beauty founder said that she tries to reach out to people and talk about things and working out helps too.
Selena shared that she is very excited about the community that they are creating and added that she feels that it's very important for every individual to remember that they are not alone and that is why Wondermind was born to create space and encourage people to go to know they are being seen, heard and their feelings are valid. The founder concluded that she understands how lonely and intimidating it gets and feels when asking for help but with the support of a community that she is trying to build, she hopes that it won't be scary or taboo to discuss one's challenges openly.
