Harry Styles' Most Honest Quotes About Mental Health

He’s an open book. Harry Styles has opened up about his mental health throughout his time in the spotlight.

In fact, the actor even thanked his therapist on stage at a November 2021 Love on Tour show. While taking the stage in Los Angeles, the former One Direction member thanked all the important people in his life that came to see him perform, one being his therapist.

“There are some people in this room tonight who have helped me more than I could ever express to them, and you all know who you are,” Harry shared, per Us Weekly. “I just want to say thank you. Because you changed my life, and I’m so happy. This is 100 percent my favorite thing to do, and I appreciate you being here tonight so much.”

The “Watermelon Sugar” singer then joked, “In potentially the most L.A. thing that has ever come out of my mouth. My therapist is here. So thank you to her.”

While the crowd cheered loudly upon Harry’s admission, he asked his therapist point blank: “Now do you understand?”

Harry quickly became a household name after One Direction’s fame started on The X Factor in 2010. Over the years, he’s become a major heartthrob touring the world and nabbing tons of acting roles. While he does like to keep his personal life out of the public eye, the “Sign of the Times” crooner has gotten candid about making the decision to seek out a therapist.

While speaking with The Guardian in December 2019, Harry explained that when he first got famous, he never thought about how that kind of fame could impact him in the long run.

“I was a kid, all I knew was: I didn’t have to go to school anymore. I thought it was f–king great,” he shared. “Maybe it’s something I’ll have to deal with a bit later. When I wake up in my 40s and think, ‘Arrrggh.’”

When the topic of therapy came up, the England native revealed that he doesn’t speak to someone “every week,” rather “whenever I feel I need it.”

“For a really long time I didn’t try therapy, because I wanted to be the guy who could say, ‘I don’t need it,'” he explained. “Now, I realize I was only getting in my own way. It helps.”

Scroll through our gallery to read Harry’s most candid quotes about his mental health over the years.

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Starting Therapy

“I think for a really long time, especially when I started coming to California, there was a big thing for me where I felt like everyone went to therapy,” he told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in November 2019. “And I think for a long time I was like, ‘I don’t need that.’”

“You know, it’s very like British way of looking at it, I think,” he explained, noting, “I just realized I was just getting in my own way.”

Talking About Everything

“I have been to therapy. I don’t go often as my therapist is in L.A. We call sometimes. I felt like there was a big part of me that was like, ‘Everybody I know is in therapy and I don’t think I need it.’ And I wanted to be the guy who didn’t have to go to therapy,” he admitted on The Howard Stern Show in March 2020. “Somebody just described it to me as, ‘You can tell somebody everything. You can talk at somebody, pay them and then they are not allowed to tell anyone.'”

He added, “So, I thought about getting one in London, but, for me, it is much easier to have one person who is a vessel, who I can tell everything to. If I started having two different people, it would confuse me a bit.”

Deciding to Start Therapy

“I thought it meant that you were broken,” Harry admitted about therapy during a May 2022 interview with Better Homes & Gardens. “I wanted to be the one who could say I didn’t need it.” However, speaking with a therapist made him “open up rooms in himself.”

Harry continued, “I think that accepting living, being happy, hurting in the extremes, that is the most alive you can be. Losing it crying, losing it laughing—there’s no way, I don think, to feel more alive than that.”

Finding His Emotions

During a May 2022 interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Harry explained that “or a really long time I kind of emotionally coasted.”

“We’d go through real highs in the band and stuff, and it would always just feel like a relief. Like, ‘Oh, we didn’t fail. That feels like a massive relief.’ I never really felt like I celebrated anything,” he recalled. ” And I had a great time. Like, truly. And I think sometimes, with therapy as an example, is you open a bunch of doors in your house that you didn’t know existed, you find all these rooms and you get to explore them.”