{"id":13126,"date":"2017-04-18T22:51:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/?p=13126"},"modified":"2021-11-10T12:37:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T07:07:46","slug":"celebrity-anxiety-lena-headey-game-of-thrones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/celebrity-anxiety-lena-headey-game-of-thrones.html","title":{"rendered":"Actress Lena Headey of &#8216;Game of Thrones&#8217; speaks about her Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Actress Lena Headey plays the popular character of Cersei Lannister in <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/5-things-to-learn-from-game-of-thrones.html?yd_source=YDBlog&amp;yd_medium=InternalLinking&amp;yd_content=ActressLenaHeadeyofGameofThronesspeaksaboutherAnxiety&amp;yd_campaign=Personal\">Game of Thrones<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. To show her support for the importance of mental health, she came clean about her struggle with anxiety, on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I overthink for sure. I am familiar with depression. I get HUGE anxiety (always fun ?) Insecure, not really. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5dwrO4ByYz\">https:\/\/t.co\/5dwrO4ByYz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 lena headey (@IAMLenaHeadey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAMLenaHeadey\/status\/852460081342029824\">April 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of you may feel anxious in different situations. It is common to feel nervous before an interview or making important decisions. But an anxiety disorder is when such distress interferes with your ability to live a normal life. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of us are unaware of ways to deal with situations like these. Mental health needs to be openly discussed. Understanding the necessity of having honest conversations regarding mental illnesses, she adds,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cGlobally we see constant destruction of human lives. Which no matter your belief, has an effect. If we scale it back to family and community, it\u2019s been lost to greed and aspiration, no wonder we have anxiety, no wonder we overthink\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sooner the illness can be identified, the easier it is to deal with them. Lena highlights a significant point saying,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>\u201cAnxiety. Depression. It\u2019s real and it\u2019s chemical. It\u2019s also spiritual.\u201d<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Game of Thrones<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> star concluded by saying that she was fine but urged her fans to give importance to their mental health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Are you someone who has gone through a difficult phase and emerged stronger and better, with some professional help? Share your story with us to encourage thousands of others who might be struggling.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BecomeAYDWarrior\"><b><i><a href=\"#\" class=\"click-here-link\">click here<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>\u00a0to submit your story.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Lena Headey plays the popular character of Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones. To show her support for the importance of mental health, she came clean about her struggle with anxiety, on social media. I overthink for sure. I am familiar with depression. I get HUGE anxiety (always fun ?) Insecure, not really. https:\/\/t.co\/5dwrO4ByYz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[159,170],"class_list":["post-13126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-anxiety","tag-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}