Dove Cameron Gets Candid About 'Struggling' With Depression & Dysphoria in Tearful Post

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Dove Cameron is getting candid about her recent struggles with depression, dysphoria and her sense of self.The 26-year-old actress and singer took to Instagram on Wednesday afternoon, where she posted a number of snapshots of herself in a mirror, her eyes red from crying and her face still soaked with tears.She shared a lengthy written message for fans in the last two slides of the post, where she spoke out about how she's been «struggling lately with the concept of self, my inner relationship to who i know myself to be and my outer perceivable self who i feel i have never known but other people seem to.»«I've been covering mirrors lately.

i've been feeling wrong in clothing that used to make me feel beautiful lately,» she continued. «I've been crying a lot lately, sometimes terrorized by my identity and image, sometimes in absolute flow with something new and peripheral and joyous to me.»Cameron wrote that she doesn't really know if she's «ever slowed down enough to learn who I am outside of fight, flight or freeze.»«Sexuality and performative gender norms, societal rewards and identity are really throwing me for a loop,» she continued. «social media and mirrors and branding and the constant broadcasting of self and visibility of ourselves and everyone everywhere is not optimal for mental health, clarity of energy or relationship to our inner world.