'NEGATIVE SPIRAL'
Love Island’s Camilla Thurlow considered killing herself after appearing on the show gave her anxiety
LOVE Island's Camilla Thurlow considered killing herself after appearing on the ITV2 dating show gave her anxiety.
The 30-year-old star and her boyfriend Jamie Jewitt were runners up in the 2017 series of the show.
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Camilla has now admitted that she has battled mental health issues for years - and has even thought about what it would be like to "not be alive".
Speaking on the How to Fail podcast, the beauty shared: "It’s difficult for the people around you of course, if you’re a people pleaser as soon as you start disappointing the people around you because you’re feeling like that then you’re trapped in that, is just a constant negative spiral.
"You start to entertain thoughts about what not being alive would be like, even if it’s just letting that cross your mind or whether it becomes a more serious thought pattern.
"But then there’s just this constant feeling of unease, just in general, and it starts to become unbearable to be inside my own head all the time and I get completely trapped in it, trapped in a really sort of negative spiral."
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The reality star, who once dated Prince Harry, then detailed how this impacted her view on life.
She explained: "It’s hard to talk about this necessarily, it’s not that the other option becomes any less terrifying but when life becomes unbearable like that you do start to think in a different way, it starts to change the way you look at everything.
"To sit with myself and try and support myself when I’m feeling a bad moment I just descend into self-loathing.
"It's when you can’t see a way out, there’s no light because you don’t think that there’s light at the end of the tunnel."
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YOU'RE NOT ALONE
EVERY 90 minutes in the UK a life is lost to suicide.
It doesn't discriminate, touching the lives of people in every corner of society - from the homeless and unemployed to builders and doctors, reality stars and footballers.
It's the biggest killer of people under the age of 35, more deadly than cancer and car crashes.
And men are three times more likely to take their own life than women.
Yet it's rarely spoken of, a taboo that threatens to continue its deadly rampage unless we all stop and take notice, now.
That is why The Sun launched the You're Not Alone campaign.
The aim is that by sharing practical advice, raising awareness and breaking down the barriers people face when talking about their mental health, we can all do our bit to help save lives.
Let's all vow to ask for help when we need it, and listen out for others.
You're Not Alone.
If you, or anyone you know, needs help dealing with mental health problems, the following organisations provide support:
- CALM, , 0800 585 858
- Heads Together,
- Mind, , 0300 123 3393
- Papyrus,, 0800 068 41 41
- Samaritans, , 116 123
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Boyfriend Jamie spoke out about his own depression battle shortly after leaving the Love Island villa, praising Camilla at the time for helping to turn his life around.
The pair appeared in the same series of the show as tragic Mike Thalassitis, who took his own life in March of this year - just months after 2016 contestant Sophie Gradon's suicide.
The devastating news sparked nationwide scrutiny of the programme's duty of care and support of their contestants, with producers overhauling their safeguarding procedures ahead of this summer's series.
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