Helen Flanagan has revealed she hoped that medication would ‘fix’ her mental health struggles after being left feeling ‘awful and depressed.’
The Coronation Street star, 33, has been incredibly candid about the breakdown she suffered earlier this year, which forced her to pull out of her acting comeback.
And in an upcoming interview on the Full of Grace podcast, Helen is set to share how she pleaded with doctors for medication to ‘level her out,’ but instead it made her feel ‘absolutely terrible.’
In a clip from the podcast, which will be released on Friday, Helen said: ‘I just, I couldn’t cope, I just felt so awful and I WOULD FEEL so depressed.
‘[I would go to] the doctors and be like ”I honestly feel so horrendous mentally before my period, I need to take something to level me out.
Helen Flanagan has revealed she hoped that medication would ‘fix’ her mental health struggles after being left feeling ‘awful and depressed’
The Coronation Street star has been incredibly candid about the breakdown she suffered earlier this year after a reaction to her ADHD medication
‘I thought it was gonna kind of like fix me but it actually made me feel absolutely terrible.’
In February, it was revealed that Helen was bowing out of her role as Miss Scarlett in the show Cluedo 2 after she was ‘advised to withdraw for medical reasons’, however she failed to give further details of the reason behind her departure – sparking fear among fans.
Taking to Instagram in March, she revealed that across January and February she was fighting a secret battle with her mental health after her split from Scott Sinclair.
Helen has since admitted the extent of her woes – as she revealed to The Mirror that she was seeing things and felt like she was in danger all the time after having a reaction to her ADHD medication.
She confessed she struggled to deal with the split: ‘I don’t see it as a break-up, I see it as a divorce. We were together 13 years. But instead of processing it all, I threw myself into work and shut off my emotions.
‘I just went into survival mode. Then it all came to the surface earlier this year and I was mentally and physically breaking down.’
She then started medicating for her ADHD and suffered a bad reaction to her medication as she explained: ‘It was really sad and very scary. I was seeing things and I felt like I was in danger all the time.’
Whilst in the grasps of her episode, Helen jetted to Bali with her kids Matilda, eight, Delilah, five, and Charlie, two, who she shares with ex Scott.
In an upcoming interview on the Full of Grace podcast, Helen is set to share how she pleaded with doctors for medication to ‘level her out,’ but instead it made her feel ‘absolutely terrible’
Helen previously admitted how scary the breakdown was as she revealed she was seeing things and felt like she was in danger all the time after a reaction to her ADHD medication
Helen didn’t have her children over Christmas as they were with their father so she decided to take them to the sunny destination for a special New Years.
During the trip, she shared a slew of sweet snaps – with smiles hiding her hidden pain following the painful break-up from her ex and her new life as a single mum.
While she did not comment on her battle at the time, she was the grasp of a psychotic breakdown due to unresolved trauma surrounding her split.
The couple called it quits on their relationship back in 2022 after spending 13 years together.
Helen’s children went to stay with her parents while she sought help as the mother made sure to put her family first.
The Coronation Street star opened up about her psychosis for the first in March after a break from social media as she explained she was ’emotionally struggling’ with her split from ex Scott Sinclair and the demands of being a working single mother.
She began: ‘So basically I really struggled mental health wise December/ January,’ Helen began her post.
‘I felt really not great in my head over Christmas and I didn’t really feel that much different when I took the kids away for new year. Had a lot of difficult things going on things I just can’t talk about on Instagram.’
She ended her post by stating that ‘I’ve always been honest on here and I feel in a really good happy place now. therapy can be amazing and I feel like I’ve worked on myself with things that were quite tough to me but I feel lighter now anyway sending love and please be kind.’
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