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Barely a teenager, life appeared to

like a walk through a rose garden, but she soon discovered that they had thorns.

Just turned 30, he has been fighting anxiety,

and

for years caused by lupus and the bipolar disorder he suffers from, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the sixth leading cause of disability. in the world.

She has been one of the few actresses who have

to tell it, and she has done it openly, as a way to also get rid of the enormous

that accompanied her.

Talking about her

her .

"It took a load off my shoulders when I found out. I took a deep breath and said to myself, 'Okay, this explains it,'" she confessed in the US edition of Elle magazine.

The last six years of

have not been easy at all.

When she seemed to be at her best, the actress and singer began an ordeal of mental problems that made her even consider

.

"I thought the world would be better if I weren't there," she has said in

, the documentary that now premieres this Friday on Apple TV + and that narrates all those experiences.

coping with depression

Among others, the terrible

that forced her to suspend tours and that prostrated her for months in bed,

to face the world.

"I couldn't move, I didn't want anyone to talk to me. My friends didn't

what was wrong with me. Sometimes I spent weeks in bed, even going downstairs left me

," she says Selena in the

.

"I will stop living like this."

It all started to go dark when he was in his 20s, when he began to realize "that I wasn't in control of what I felt, whether it was good or really bad," he says.

From then on, the stress,

and inability to fall

led her to a state that she could only get out of with professional help.

"I went to one of the best

and realized after years of going through a lot of different things that this is

."

That she adds to the problems caused by lupus, an autoimmune disease that has also led her to go through the operating room to receive a

.

The donor was Francia Raisa, his friend and also his actress.

Now, she Selena has assured in the American magazine 'Rolling Stone' that she will need to return to the

in the future.

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living with bipolar disorder

His mental problems worsened in 2018. He then had to take medication and enter a

center to overcome episodes of

.

A process that later forced her to

from medications and accept that she would have to live with bipolar disorder for the rest of her life.

"Suddenly, I had to learn to be with myself," she said.

She talks about all this in this documentary, which she calls

.

Also how she has changed her way of seeing and accepting her body.

"When I look back on those years they seem like a time

. I feel bad for that version of myself," she has said on the talk show Entertainment Tonight.

"I think for me it has been good and

to see how she acted then,

it and get it out."

That has been his way of overcoming it and that is why he has shot this

.

His best advice for dealing with

is not to be

.

"I never had it when it came to telling people that I needed to take time for myself. That's not a bad thing, but to be

. And I think I am, "she says.

Difficulties in being a mother

In the documentary Selena Gomez also faces her problems to be a biological

, due to the medications she takes to take care of her

and control lupus.

She admits that it is something that often makes her

, especially when a friend of hers gets

.

"It's a very present issue in my life. However, whatever it is, I'm going to have

," she says.

In fact, on one of her last

she said she had rescued the

she used as a child from her mother's storage room, which she now keeps hoping to use with her own

.

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