Anne Hathaway Shared Some Interesting Tips on Coping with Chronic Stress and Anxiety
During his recent appearance on The New York Times podcast The interviewThe 41-year-old actress opened up about suffering from somatic stress when she was younger and joked that it helped her take on roles of “chronically stressed young women.”
“I was a very stressed young woman,” she admitted.
He princess diaries The star then explained how a single epiphany helped her change her way of thinking.
“As a young woman who previously suffered from chronic stress, which leads to, you know, all kinds of things, I remember one day thinking, ‘You’re taking this for granted,’” she reflected.
Hathaway further admitted that she “didn’t know how to breathe,” which caused her constant stress.
She explained: “You have no idea. Something could fall from the sky and the lights will go out for you. So when I notice my old instincts kicking in, I just tell myself, ‘You’re not going to die stressed.'”
Summing up her past experiences, she explained: “I was very, very, very psyched about a lot of things. I guess maybe that’s the easiest way to say it.”
