Sara Bareilles Opens Up About Deciding to Take Medicine & Dealing With Depression & Anxiety

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Sara Bareilles is opening up in an incredibly candid post about her mental health. The 42-year-old The Blessed Unrest singer-songwriter shared insight into her decision to begin taking medicine for her mental health in a post on Tuesday (January 18) on Instagram. Click inside to read more… “This is my medicine. (Not pictured medicines: friends/family, therapy, exercise, sleep and meditation.),” she began, captioning a picture holding a half pill. “I wanted to write a little bit about the fact that after 20 years of feeling very strongly that it was not the path I needed to take…I have tried medication for the first time.

For the first time in months I can feel myself again- my joy, my optimism and my laughter are among some of the precious parts of myself I have rediscovered.

They sit at my soul’s table, along with my sweet sadness and my tender anxiety…who, by the way, aren’t the only ones talking anymore.

It is a profound, holy relief,” she continued. “For those who don’t understand it or have never dealt with it, from the inside of depression and anxiety sometimes you can’t see the possibility of a way out, much less the path itself,” she went on to explain. “For the past year, I felt desperate and overwhelmed almost all the time.