Zayn Malik Opens Up About Managing His Anxiety

let's talk about anxiety I know that you. have lightly talked about it in times. and I just want to talk to you about. like how anxiety affects your life what. has it done in terms of playing a part. in your personal life in your career. like just talk to me about what you're. comfortable with uh yeah so I think we. kind of touched on it a bit earlier like. um when we talking about you know like. the the the the nature of our job you. know like what we were doing in the band. and the situation being on stage in. front of thousands of people.

um I think it's a really normal place to. experience anxiety you know like you're. going to go and perform in front of you. know a lot of different people that you. don't know who they are um and it's not. a natural thing to do you know in in. terms of um everyday life you don't just. talk to thousands of people you know um. so it was something that I had to you. know learn to uh adjust um anxiety for. me I've learned is is a feeling that now.

has a word you know um and I feel like. for Generations human beings have felt. it and not really even been able to put. you know the finger on what it is um but. we overcome it you know um and certain. things in in life can change your. perspective on them things and I think. for me like since I've had my daughter. and since she was born like the main. thing in in my mind is like trying to be. a good example to her like in terms of.

you know I can do things and I can. achieve things and I can overcome things. and you can do this too um and to let. things like you know a feeling stop you. from doing that after having a child. feels like a really small thing like I. feel like I like had to step up you know. as as as a man or just you know as a. person um and be this example to her. that doesn't uh succumb to these. feelings that's why I'm even doing this. interview you know like I I used to get.

a lot of anxiety around like having a. conversation like this just in this kind. of environment and I want her to be able. to look at me and be like yo my dad's. doing this you know he's he's the man. he's cool yeah he's a cool guy yeah so. um that's helped me a lot for sure that. is so cool to obviously my mom's. a psychologist so I grew up and I think. mental health was not a conversation for. most families and hopefully it will be.

but like I've watched so my mom talk to. so many people and talk them through how. to get over a panic attack how to get. over anxiety how to not get over it but. like manage it live with it be okay to. go about your everyday life I think. sometimes if you don't have anxiety. people look at people with anxiety like. just get the over it and I think it. shows up in everyone's lives in such. different ways and you I think that's. the way you can look at it you know I. think everybody's situation is is. individual I think it takes an. individual experience then to happen for.

somebody to overcome that too you know. totally if you think about the first. time you can recall in your life. experiencing anxiety did you experience. anxiety prior to fame for sure like take. me to like a moment in your life where. you remember being like wow I didn't. know that was anxiety but now I do but I. enjoyed it that was the thing yeah like. I enjoyed being in that feeling and they. got to a certain point I think where it. just became too much like I just was was. weighing on me that feeling of um like.

anticipation and then getting the. adrenaline and then the the after. feeling of that you know um as a young. kid I loved it like I loved being on. stage and I loved performing it was like. a free space for me to go and be a. character cuz it was you know I was. playing a a role in some little school. performance it was nothing serious um. when it became a thing that had a lot of. weight behind it in terms of you know. people watching and stuff then you're. going to have yeah um you're going to.

have natural feelings of anxiety yeah. people staring at you judging you. writing about you following you taking. pictures of you that's a lot can you. share with us like in the Heyday of. Paparazzi and Insanity like what would. be something that would really trigger. your anxiety in those. days um just the idea of like um like. not being able to just do normal things. like to just go outside and like walk.

out onto the street you know like cuz. where we lived it was kind of a bit. crazy and there's just people always. there like waiting to take a photo and. stuff and obviously thinking about. having a child and like raising her in. that environment it was just very. claustrophobic for me I didn't want her. to have to be like exposed to that cuz. she didn't choose it you know like it. was a choice that I made so I was like. we need to get out of here so that she. can have some chance of like a a normal. childhood you know where there's not is. flashing in her face.

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