Dixie D’Amelio Mental Health Struggles: TikTok Star’s Quotes

At just 20 years old, Dixie D’Amelio is one of the most famous people on the internet. Boasting over 50 million followers on TikTok and over 20 million followers on Instagram, the Norwalk, Connecticut, native, is well on her way to the A-list. (Hello, she attended the 2021 Met Gala!)

Even prior to Dixie’s rising status, the “Psycho” artist experienced anxiety and mental health struggles. Now that she has a huge platform, Dixie makes it a point to unapologetically shed light on those topics, including in her family’s new Hulu series, The D’Amelio Show, starring Dixie, sister Charli D’Amelio and parents Heidi and Marc D’Amelio.

“[The show’s] our lives, it’s our mental health, it’s our emotions,” Dixie explained during a September 2021 interview with Us Weekly. “And it’s also showing something that we’re learning about at the same time. Like we have no idea what we’re doing, but I mean, I think it’s just cool to be able to see our journey and how, like, every day we wake up and learn something new, every day we have as different, and you can see that in the show.”

Ultimately, Dixie, who is dating fellow TikTok star Noah Beck, believes she has a responsibility to her fans to keep it real, most notably when it comes to dealing with hateful comments online. “I think it was important because I knew I wasn’t going to be in that moment forever,” the “Happy” singer continued.

“I knew everything was eventually going to be better. Even if I couldn’t see when or how I wanted to show my personal growth. I wanted to show literally the bottom of the bottom of how I’m feeling and just me knowing that it was just going to get better, really pushed me to have that filmed and have that shown to people,” Dixie added, assuring she’s “grown in the past couple months” and “negative comments don’t even affect” her anymore.

Scroll through our gallery below to see everything Dixie D’Amelio has said about her mental health struggles.

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On Anxiety:

While in high school, Dixie revealed that she experienced anxiety-related seizures.

“I fall to the ground and have a seizure,” she recalled during an Instagram Live in August 2020. “Then I’m taken to the hospital and I’m there for two days while they are constantly monitoring me, and I have over 400 of these convulsions over the next few days.”

Despite being open with followers, some people began to doubt Dixie’s experience, and even suggested she was doing it for “attention.” However, the Attaway General star doubled down. “That’s something I don’t like talking about at all, but I’m not going to let anyone think of me any other way,” she said.

“I was a person when I was at my old school who I did not like. I was not myself, because I had so much anxiety and everything going through my brain at the time where I couldn’t even have a proper conversation with anyone,” Dixie added. “I’m so thankful for who I am now and what I am and all that. “

On Internet Hate:

“I’ve been getting a lot of hate lately for how I present myself on the internet. I have explosions of emotions due to some health things I have. I have outbursts of anger, and emotion, and talk without thinking because I have other things going on in my body that I can’t control,” Dixie explained during a February 2021 episode of her “2 Chix” podcast with Charli. “The way I come across is bratty, ungrateful, things like that. At the end of the day, when you’re unhappy with your own life, you don’t care about anything,”

Dixie went on to say that she “started medication,” but still struggles.

“I try to show my actual self, because that’s what people want to see on the internet, but I can’t. Recently, I just feel guilty for every single thing I do, [for] every opportunity I have. I broke down the other day. I was like, ‘Would I be doing more people a favor if I wasn’t here?’ I’m not trying to … for sympathy or anything, I just want to be real. That’s how I’m feeling,” she added. “I just feel guilty for being alive sometimes, for something I can’t control It’s affected me personally, and I’ve been feeling this way for months.”

On Her Relationship With Charli:

During a June 2021 appearance on “The Madhappy Podcast,” Dixie explained how her mental health affected her relationship with Charli.

“We used to not have a relationship at all. We wouldn’t talk, nothing. We would just see each other around the house sometimes, but we could go weeks without having a conversation,” she admitted. “We were both really struggling with mental health and just, friendships and not having anybody. We were both going through the same exact thing, but I think it was the constant, ‘You don’t know what you’re talking about, you don’t have it like I do.'”

Thankfully, the sisters were able to move past their reservations and come together. “We never even thought to go to each other. Now we laugh at it and say, ‘Oh my god, I would have needed you so bad during this, I wish we were friends here because we could have talked and figured this out,'” Dixie concluded.

If you or someone you know is in emotional distress or considering suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

Honesty HourEverything Dixie D’Amelio Has Said About Her Mental Health Struggles

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