Tag: Panic Attack

  • Gisele Bundchen wanted to jump from ninth floor during panic attack

    By IANS

    LOS ANGELES:  Supermodel Gisele Bundchen revealed that she wanted to kill herself at the peak of her modelling career by jumping from the ninth storey of her apartment block.

    She also battled panic attacks at the time due to her hectic work schedule, reports aceshowbiz.com.

    “You know, I was in tunnels. I couldn’t breathe. And then I started being in studios, and I felt, like, suffocated,” she told journalist Lee Cowan, 58, in an upcoming episode of ‘CBS News Sunday Morning’, which will air on 24 September.

    She said her suicidal thought came when she was living on the ninth floor of a building while working as a model and was having to take the stairs out of fear she’d get stuck in the elevator.

    Bundchen added: “I’d be hyperventilating… you know when you can’t breathe even when the windows are open, you feel like, I don’t want to live like this, you know what I mean?”

    When she was asked whether she had thought “about jumping” from the apartment block, Gisele replied: “Yeah. For, like, a second.”

    She spoke about her suicidal thoughts in 2018 ahead of the release of her memoir ‘Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life’. Bundchen told People in an interview to promote the book, “I actually had the feeling of, ‘If I just jump off my roof, this is going to end, and I never have to worry about this feeling of my world closing in.’ ”

    The former Victoria’s Secret model added she once felt like “everything in (her) life was going to kill (her).” She added in her autobiography: “The idea swept over me then, maybe it will be easier if I just jump. It will be all over. I can get out of this.”

    “When I think back on that moment, and that 23-year-old girl, I want to cry. I want to tell her that everything will be all right, that she hasn’t even begun to live her life. But in that moment, the only answer seemed to be to jump.”

    But Gisele stressed during her chat she is now “in a different place.”

    She added, “I’m able to choose more of what I want. I think before I was more surviving, and now I’m living, which is different.”

    Bundchen, who was once the world’s highest-paid model, earning around $17.5 million in one year, gave up the catwalk in 2015. She is now still in high demand and has been fronting campaigns for brands including Victoria’s Secret, Iconic and Louis Vuitton.

    Gisele also admits in the CBS chat she never “dreamed” of splitting from her husband Tom Brady.

    Sources say they decided to call it a day on their marriage after they had what sources have called an “epic fight” over the athlete’s surprising decision to “un-retire” from football six months earlier.

    LOS ANGELES:  Supermodel Gisele Bundchen revealed that she wanted to kill herself at the peak of her modelling career by jumping from the ninth storey of her apartment block.

    She also battled panic attacks at the time due to her hectic work schedule, reports aceshowbiz.com.

    “You know, I was in tunnels. I couldn’t breathe. And then I started being in studios, and I felt, like, suffocated,” she told journalist Lee Cowan, 58, in an upcoming episode of ‘CBS News Sunday Morning’, which will air on 24 September.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    She said her suicidal thought came when she was living on the ninth floor of a building while working as a model and was having to take the stairs out of fear she’d get stuck in the elevator.

    Bundchen added: “I’d be hyperventilating… you know when you can’t breathe even when the windows are open, you feel like, I don’t want to live like this, you know what I mean?”

    When she was asked whether she had thought “about jumping” from the apartment block, Gisele replied: “Yeah. For, like, a second.”

    She spoke about her suicidal thoughts in 2018 ahead of the release of her memoir ‘Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life’. Bundchen told People in an interview to promote the book, “I actually had the feeling of, ‘If I just jump off my roof, this is going to end, and I never have to worry about this feeling of my world closing in.’ ”

    The former Victoria’s Secret model added she once felt like “everything in (her) life was going to kill (her).” She added in her autobiography: “The idea swept over me then, maybe it will be easier if I just jump. It will be all over. I can get out of this.”

    “When I think back on that moment, and that 23-year-old girl, I want to cry. I want to tell her that everything will be all right, that she hasn’t even begun to live her life. But in that moment, the only answer seemed to be to jump.”

    But Gisele stressed during her chat she is now “in a different place.”

    She added, “I’m able to choose more of what I want. I think before I was more surviving, and now I’m living, which is different.”

    Bundchen, who was once the world’s highest-paid model, earning around $17.5 million in one year, gave up the catwalk in 2015. She is now still in high demand and has been fronting campaigns for brands including Victoria’s Secret, Iconic and Louis Vuitton.

    Gisele also admits in the CBS chat she never “dreamed” of splitting from her husband Tom Brady.

    Sources say they decided to call it a day on their marriage after they had what sources have called an “epic fight” over the athlete’s surprising decision to “un-retire” from football six months earlier.

  • Elizabeth Olsen speaks about experiencing panic attacks on New York streets

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: Hollywood star Elizabeth Olsen has revealed that she “didn’t understand” feelings of panic until she reached a certain age while living in New York.

    According to E! News, in an interview with Variety, the ‘WandaVision’ actor got candid about how she experienced panic attacks in New York at the age of 21; a feeling she said she wasn’t aware of as she was a very loud and confident kid growing up.

    “I remember I would get [panick attacks] on the go every hour. I used to live on 13th Street between 6th and 7th. I was crossing 6th Avenue at 14th Street, and I realized I couldn’t cross the street — I stood up against the wall, and I just thought I was going to drop dead at any moment,” Olsen said.

    She described the “spiralling” feeling that would happen in her body at signs of change in her environment, reported E! News.

    “If I went from cold to hot, hot to cold, full to hungry, hungry to full — any kind of shift in my body, my whole body thought, ‘Uh oh, something’s wrong!’ It was so weird. An ENT doctor said that it could be vertigo related because it was all about truly spinning. So it was an interesting six months,” Olsen told the publication.

    To cope with the feelings, she looked to a friend who was seeing a medical professional for panic attacks and knew a lot of brain games. Olsen learned one strategy called “repetition” as a grounding technique.

    As per E! News, the Marvel star said the technique was a “helpful tool,” but still recalled her panic attacks as “very weird” because she was not anxious as a child.

    WASHINGTON: Hollywood star Elizabeth Olsen has revealed that she “didn’t understand” feelings of panic until she reached a certain age while living in New York.

    According to E! News, in an interview with Variety, the ‘WandaVision’ actor got candid about how she experienced panic attacks in New York at the age of 21; a feeling she said she wasn’t aware of as she was a very loud and confident kid growing up.

    “I remember I would get [panick attacks] on the go every hour. I used to live on 13th Street between 6th and 7th. I was crossing 6th Avenue at 14th Street, and I realized I couldn’t cross the street — I stood up against the wall, and I just thought I was going to drop dead at any moment,” Olsen said.

    She described the “spiralling” feeling that would happen in her body at signs of change in her environment, reported E! News.

    “If I went from cold to hot, hot to cold, full to hungry, hungry to full — any kind of shift in my body, my whole body thought, ‘Uh oh, something’s wrong!’ It was so weird. An ENT doctor said that it could be vertigo related because it was all about truly spinning. So it was an interesting six months,” Olsen told the publication.

    To cope with the feelings, she looked to a friend who was seeing a medical professional for panic attacks and knew a lot of brain games. Olsen learned one strategy called “repetition” as a grounding technique.

    As per E! News, the Marvel star said the technique was a “helpful tool,” but still recalled her panic attacks as “very weird” because she was not anxious as a child.

  • Felt physically paralysed during panic attacks: Jennifer Lopez opens up about changing lifestyle habits

    By ANI

    LOS ANGELES: Singer Jennifer Lopez recalled “feeling physically paralysed” during severe panic attacks she experienced in her late 20s.

    In the latest edition of her On the JLo newsletter, Jennifer opened up about she changed her lifestyle after battling exhaustion-induced panic attacks, People reported.

    “There was a time in my life where I used to sleep 3 to 5 hours a night. I’d be on set all day and in the studio all night and doing junkets and filming videos on the weekends,” she wrote.

    “I was in my late 20s and I thought I was invincible. Until one day, I was sitting in a trailer, and all the work and the stress it brought with it, coupled with not enough sleep to recuperate mentally, caught up with me,” she added.

    Lopez shared that she “went from feeling totally normal to thinking about what I needed to do that day and all of a sudden I felt as if I couldn’t move.”

    “I was completely frozen,” Lopez wrote. She said she “couldn’t see clearly” and the physical symptoms “started to scare me and the fear compounded itself. Now I know it was a classic panic attack brought on by exhaustion, but I had never even heard the term at the time,” she added.

    Jennifer revealed that she questioned her sanity until a health professional explained that she needed to take a closer look at her lifestyle.

    “My security guard on set came in and picked me up and drove me to the doctor. By the time I got there, I could at least speak again and I was so terrified I thought I was losing my mind,” Lopez recounted. “I asked the doctor if I was going crazy. He said, ‘No, you’re not crazy. You need sleep … get 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night, don’t drink caffeine, and make sure you get your workouts in if you’re going to do this much work.’”

    Jennifer explained that she “let my own self-care needs go completely” as she prioritized work during a time in her life that yielded the dawn of her lifestyle empire, her debut studio album On the 6 and a budding film career that included her Golden Globe-nominated performance in Selena, as well as her first marriage.

    “I realized how serious the consequences could be of ignoring what my body and mind needed to be healthy — and that’s where my journey to wellness began,” Jennifer emphasised.