NCIS star reveals mental health battle & says he felt like ‘living dead’

An NCIS star was opened exclusively to the united states sun about the harrowing mental health battle that left him feeling like the “walking dead” despite his rise to fame.

Blake Webb, 37, spoke about his years-long struggle to overcome the odds and come together The Angels about two percent of artists who make a successful living interim.

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Webb is best known for appearing on hit shows including 13 reasons why, NCIScriminal minds and american horror story.

Despite not breaking into the industry Until age 28, his determination, work ethic, and talent earned him around $100,000 a year.

While on the surface he was living the dream and achieving an ambition he had had since childhood, Blake, originally from Arizonasaid that his mental health it was “eating him alive from the inside”.

blake told him the united states sun:: “The breaking point was waking up every day and hating life.

“I had no fun and no confidence. Things got so bad that she was considering anything to find relief outside of drugs.

“I really started to feel like life was meaningless. I would always look in the mirror, judge myself and look at old audition tapes. i was a mess

“When you’re extremely depressed, you’re not really motivated, you can’t just say to yourself ‘I bet if I ate better and went to the gym every day again, I’d feel a lot better.’

“I kept going around in circles. I would walk outside, feel like people were judging me, that I was wasting my time in LA, and that I wasn’t attractive anymore.

“I thought if things stayed like this and never changed, being dead wouldn’t be much different.”

Around this time he became increasingly lonely and lose weightarousing concern among those close to him.

Then a friend put him in touch with his counselor in early 2018.

After some gentle persuasion, Blake arranged a meeting in March of that year that he now admits would change the course of his life.

She taught him how his depression and anxiety were destroying his life, which led Blake to work to address his mental health issues with the same vigor with which he approached acting.

I thought if things stayed like this and never changed, being dead wouldn’t be much different.

Within a year he saw results, mostly by living in the present, allowing his worries about the past and the future to gradually evaporate.

“He set small achievable goals and gave me simple tasks to figure out the error in my thought patterns,” he explained.

“I learned that, in most cases, my mind was the problem, not my situation.

“I had worked with many clients in the entertainment industry, we often talked about how most of the decisions I made were completely out of my control and often made no sense.”

Blake used these techniques to create his own life playbook, taking what worked from his strict Mormon upbringing and ditching what didn’t.

MIND OVER MATTER

As with many things, being consistent with habits, being balanced, doing Daily exerciseand participating regularly therapy sessions, were key to overcoming and then managing his mental health, he said.

“It took me years to get rid of most of my anxiety, but I have come a long way and I can confidently say that I feel much calmer today,” he added.

“I am happy much more often than before, even when it is perceived that things are not going the way I want.”

Since coming to terms with his own mental health struggles, Blake is now an outspoken advocate for others in trouble to seek help.

She also said it helped her stop putting all her worth into achieving goals like starring in a blockbuster. hollywood movie.

“I wouldn’t trade my career for anything, but now I have the tools and knowledge to stay afloat through thick and thin,” he explained.

“It’s true, life is suffering, but we don’t have to suffer so much. I don’t need to be anxious and depressed to be a deep actor, this was a false narrative that he believed in ‘the old me’.

“I will always be grateful for the therapy and recommend it to anyone who feels that life is no longer joyful.

“Ask a friend, search online and find a therapist. Give it a shot. I love living in the now, instead of the past or the future.

“I don’t know where my career will go, but it seems to go better when I’m positive and happy. I work often and am learning to count my blessings instead of counting the roles I didn’t get.”

If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or text the Crisis Text Line at 741741.