Daniela Lujan has shown how important it is to have a support network, one in which they feel accompanied to face the self-destructive thoughts that have crossed your mind several times.
The actress has confessed that are mental health has been affected by depression functional and anxietyconditions that have violated to the degree of wishing and planning his death. “I began to surprise myself with super-dark thoughts and then last year (2021), between September and October, I woke up one day and said “yeah, fuck it all, I want to die now”. That idea already brought her back, but she had never planned it. She had never said it out loud and rather what I started doing was negotiating with myself my date of death, like ‘I can’t die until Panceta (her bitch of hers) dies’, said the 34-year-old actress in shipped.
Discovering herself with those ideas also made her react and seek psychiatric helpshe added in front of her colleagues and friends Mariana Botas and Jessica Segura, with whom she shares the channel on YouTube.
With her confession, the actress who rose to fame as a child star in the 1990s and is part of the series A family of ten of Televisa, gives a boost in the search to normalize talking regarding mental health and how important it is to seek professional help.
people who suffer functional depressionas is the case of Daniela, they may be very sad but force themselves to face the world and interact socially, despite the physical and emotional exhaustion it causes them. “It exhausts me, bastard, I have a disconnection with my emotions, very bastard, I have a voice in my head that tells me ‘stop it, don’t be ridiculous'”.
Thanks to the psychiatric help she has received, the also singer has managed to enjoy the simplest activities that for some might be routine, “bathing, drinking coffee, decorating my house, the simple thing”, but above all, not having to hide or feel guilty for not being well.
Options to receive psychological help in Mexico
Mexico is the country where the number of people with anxiety and depression increased the most, diseases that affected 50% and 28% of the population, respectively, during 2020, the first year of the covid-19 pandemic, according to a study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
This same body revealed that “despite the fact that it is an issue that does not affect Mexico as strongly as other OECD countries, there was an 11% increase in deaths by suicide between 2019 and 2020.”
If you or someone close to you needs help, you can call or write to receive psychological help completely free of charge at the following institutions
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UNAM helpline. Faculty of Psychology of the UNAM, which has a call center in which its operators offer care to those people who are going through a bad time. The six lines operate with service hours from Monday to Friday from 8 in the morning to 6 in the followingnoon, through the phone number 5622-2288.
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Locatel. It offers free psychological care by phone, counseling and emotional support in crisis. Phone: 555-658-1111.
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USA: 988 (toll free in English and Spanish) or visit suicidepreventionlifeline.org
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Argentina: 135 (toll free) (011)5275-1135 or visit https://www.casbuenosaires.org.ar/
