Harry Styles opens up on therapy: “I wanted to be the one who could say I didn’t need it”
nme.comHarry Styles has spoken about the benefits of receiving therapy for his mental health after initially being hesitant to engage with it.The pop star said in a new interview that speaking to a professional had allowed him to “open up rooms” in himself that he was unaware existed.He said that he started therapy reluctantly about five years ago. “I thought it meant that you were broken,” he told Better Homes & Gardens, adding that he felt it was a music industry cliche to seek help. “I wanted to be the one who could say I didn’t need it.”But therapy trained him out of his tendency to “emotionally coast”.“I think that accepting living, being happy, hurting in the extremes, that is the most alive you can be.
Losing it crying, losing it laughing – there’s no way, I don’t think, to feel more alive than that,” he said.Elsewhere in the interview Styles said that over the course of the COVID pandemic he finally reflected properly on the split of his former band, One Direction, in 2016.“In lockdown, I started processing a lot of stuff that happened when I was in the band,” he said, adding that he “felt free” when he could move on from the group to pursue his solo career and remembering how he burst into tears when he signed his new record deal.In other news, the singer announced recently a North American headline tour for this year.
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