LOOSE Women star Frankie Bridge has given fans an update 24 hours after admitting her depression was “kicking my a**e”.
The presenter and singer, 36, has struggled with her mental health over the years going through breakdowns and hospitalisation which she documented in the book, Open.
Over the weekend she explained how she was struggling and felt bored of the constant fight with her mind.
However, yesterday the sun was shining and she managed to do two workouts in the gym, all of which helped boost her mood significantly.
“What a difference a day makes,” she said in a video shared online.
“Literally yesterday I was questioning the point of life and why I keep striving to feel better without anxiety and depression and wondering what everyone else’s life would be like if I didn’t have it and thinking about people with brains that just work ‘normally’ and they don’t have this constant thing going on in their head.
“And then today, I feel great. I think the sun has definitely helped.”
While husband Wayne looked after their boys, Parker and Carter, Frankie swapped eating biscuits on the sofa for arm and leg sessions.
She added: “My point is, and this is to remind myself as well, you’ve just got to keep going. Each day is different and there’s always a light at the end of the tunnel.”
Frankie had to dig deep to pull herself out of the dark place, revealing it took her an entire day to motivate herself to get to the gym.
“My depression is absolutely kicking my a**e, and I’m so over it,” she said. “You know when you just feel like you do all the things you’re told you’re meant to do, and then it just still always comes back?
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“But I’m here,” she added. “I’m going to try and do as much as I can in the gym, because I know it will make me feel better, instead of just sitting around, eating s**t, which is what I’ve been doing all day, which only makes me feel worse and I know that, so I don’t know why I do it, but here we are back in the same old place.”
Frankie has long used her platform to raise awareness of mental health issues and she left I’m A Celebrity viewers in tears in 2021 when she recalled her lowest moments.
The Saturdays singer was treated in a psychiatric hospital following a breakdown aged 21.
Though she emerged feeling better than when she went in, adapting to ‘normal’ life took time and had myriad challenges.
The chaotic nature of life in a girl band wasn’t helpful and she would find herself having panic attacks.
She credits her retired footballer husband for helping her over the years and previously told the BBC how he had had sessions with a doctor to learn more about her condition.
Sharing her words to him in the early days, she said: “All I need is for you to listen to me because it can’t be fixed.
“Just be there, embrace it and let them know they’re not alone.”
