Alanis Morissette “would not be alive” without therapy.
Alanis Morissette needed therapy
The Ironic hitmaker admitted she still “struggles” with suicidal thoughts and believes much of her depressive nature comes from being “highly sensitive”.
After making her admission about being saved by therapy, she was asked if she was suicidal and told The Guardian newspaper: “All the time. I still struggle with it. I have an anxious, depressive tendency. Those who are sensitive are much more susceptible to their environmental information.
“If you put a highly sensitive person in an environment where they’re brow-beaten or reduced, they’ll basically want to kill themselves. It’s the worst. If you put a highly sensitive person in an environment where they’re supported, championed and listened to, they thrive.”
The 51-year-old star – who has Ever, 14, Onyx, nine, and five-year-old Winter with husband Souleye – believes couples therapy is hugely important in her marriage.
She said: “I’m a huge couples therapist person. I have been for ever.”
But Alanis insists any therapist she and Souleye work with must be “trauma-informed” and “addiction-informed”.
She said: “I can’t be supported by someone who doesn’t look through those lenses.”
The Thank U singer has struggled with addictions to work, love, sex and shopping, to which she takes a “Whac-a-Mole” approach of tackling whenever one issue or another pops up.
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