Carly Pearce has fought ‘cruel obsessive-compulsive disorder’ since childhood

Carly Pearce Open to her Fighting with anxiety Obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder in new interviews and revealed she has been struggling With her mental health Started since childhood.

Pearce, 35, discusses her anxiety in an episode on Monday, August 25 Bunnie XoThe “Dumb Blonde” podcast. When Bunnie, 45, asked when the country singer’s anxiety began, Pearce explained that it took her a while to realize how long she actually fought against it.

“Three years ago, I’ll tell you that my anxiety started when I was in Kuved’s divorce,” the Grammy Award winner said. “But I’ve been paralyzed from obsessive-compulsive disorder since I was a kid. So, checking my backpack over and over, checking my alarm over and over again. … My mom would just try to calm me down or I would be scared in the storm. I remember she took me to a meteorologist to a local library and it made me meet for a lifetime.

Pierce said she “still” fights with OCD, but the 2020 pandemic has made her decide it’s time to take her mental health seriously. (In the same year, she Separate from husband Michael Ray Less than a year after getting married. )

“I think it’s really the mind that I want to do something in Covid,” Pierce recalls. “Being taken away, through a public divorce, like, I think my body is just an inner reaction, ‘Oh my God’. I can’t tell you how many interviews have brought myself together, it’s my journey.

The artist of “Every Little Things” said she has been very aware that she needs to take some time to work hard lately.

“I’ve really adapted to it over the last decade and just zipper it and deal with it, and it’s just a few years ago I just had to really start the treatment again and it was like really starting to try to figure out all these different things,” Pearce said. “Like, realizing that obsessive-compulsive disorder is something – no, that didn’t come in 2020, and that’s where I’ve been since I was 6 or 7.”

Bunnie asks Pearce if there are any specific triggers in her childhood that could have contributed to her obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Pearce points out her mom’s perfectionism. She noted that her mom never puts pressure on her to make her perfect, but she still tries to imitate her behavior.

“I watched by example and led, so I wanted to have everything that was perfect,” Pierce recalls.

Pierce has been open before The importance of therapy For her, especially since she divorced Lei at the age of 37.

“In my daily life, I’m becoming more open to talking about my feelings and having any emotions,” she told her. prevention In 2021. “I think in the way you take care of your body, you have to take care of your mind – it’s also a muscle.”