Former Love Island star Camilla Thurlow has opened up about experiencing suicidal thoughts.
The 30-year-old, who starred on Love Island back in 2017, got candid about her struggle with depression and anxiety while speaking on the How To Fail podcast.
Camilla said she’s struggled with her mental health for years, but admitted she hit a particularly low point when she turned 30 in July.
She said: “You start to entertain thoughts of 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…”
“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.”
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.”
The news comes after Love Island came under fire earlier this year, following the deaths of two former contestants – who both took their own lives.
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