Lana Condor And Awkwafina Take On Anxiety In New Video Series

Dealing with depression and anxiety forces you to feel as though you're fully alone, as if there's no one else in the world dealing with the same thing you are.


So whenever two celebrities like Awkwafina and Lana Condor open up about their struggles with being anxious, it could feel especially liberating. Seeing these astonishing, successful actresses discussing how they've previously dealt with these kinds of feelings on their own makes us feel a little bit much less like you're the only person dealing with it.


That's why the new YouTube video series Hi Anxiety is so critical. It features some of your preference celebs talking about mental health, how they've dealt with it over the years, and most importantly, reminding each person that you never have to face it alone.According to creators Adam Kaplan and Jessica Pilot, the aim is to share with the world how regular anxiety truly is and why each person can work toward overcoming it.


For Lana Condor's episode, she notes that she started dealing with anxiety at a young age – around sixth grade.


"You can get nervous and be like, 'oh my god, someone's not going to like me, I'm going to mention something that's wrong, I'm going to do something that's wrong, I'm afraid someone's going to look at me funny or they don't think my life is cool," mentioned Lana. "Then I realized it's just, it's anxiety and I think it's something we all go through."


During Awkwafina's episode, she shared how social media can trigger anxiety attacks, and why you have got to use it to foster positivity as an alternative opposed to toxicity.


as a substitute of using social media to tear people down, use social media to tell your preference musician how much you love them, or watch a good movie and share about how good that movie was." Wonderful advice.


Hopefully this new series can support encourage viewers suffering from the same things as some of those astonishing actresses do that they're not alone and there really are coping mechanisms. We can't wait to be able to see who tackles issues in the second series of videos.