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Zachary Levi Reveals He Sought 'Life-Changing' Treatment After 'Mental Breakdown'

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Zachary Levi is telling his story. The 41-year-old actor got candid during a new interview with Elizabeth Vargas on her  podcast for Partnership to End Addiction where he details his struggle with mental health, and how he once had a mental breakdown that led him to seek «life-changing» treatment.Levi began the conversation by noting that while he has struggled with anxiety, depression and low self-worth for «most» of his life, he «didn’t realize» it until he was 37 and he had a «complete mental breakdown.» The Rauthor told Vargas he grew up in a household where his step-father was a perfectionist and his mother had «borderline personality.»Explaining how his mom's borderline personality could go from one extreme to the next, Levi said, «If she was in a bad mood, it was the end of the world.

I was an embarrassment to the family. I mean, it was lots of vitriol, lots of yelling.»Levi went on to share that as he got older, he turned to substances to hide from the issues at hand. «I was running to lots of other things, whether it was sex or drugs or booze or things to distract me from, to numb myself from the pain that I was running away from most of my life,» he shared. «The irony is that booze can give you this temporary relief, but then the next day amplifies that anxiety tenfold.

So, then you’re running back to get more and it just becomes this vicious cycle.»Despite his continuing success, Levi admits he still had negative thoughts about his career, therefore he believed moving to Austin, Texas, and starting a movie studio would give him purpose.«My career was in a place where I felt like even though I had accomplished so many things up to that point, I was still, and to be honest, even now, I still feel this way.

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