assuaged her supporters’ fears while imparting an important message about living with chronic illness this week. Earlier this month, the actor had caused some concern when she got brutally honest on the podcast, which she hosts with fellow MS survivor, Jamie-Lynn Sigler. On the podcast’s June 4 episode, Applegate shared that she was in a “real, fuck-it-all depression—like, a real depression, where it’s kind of scaring me too a little bit, because it feels really fatalistic, it feels really ‘end of.
’” She continued (via ): “I don’t enjoy living. I don’t enjoy it. I don’t enjoy things anymore.
You know, if someone can come over and lay in bed with me and talk, like you have...
that’s enjoyable, I enjoy that. But if someone’s like, ‘Let’s get up and go for a walk’ or ‘Let’s go get a coffee,’ I don’t enjoy that process.” In this week’s episode, however, Applegate reassured her listeners that she’s okay.
“I was talking about some dark stuff that I was thinking and feeling,” she said. “I feel like when we hold things in we give them power. I also think that there’s so much shame a lot of people feel when they’re going through mental health issues .
.. and when people holds those in, because they’re so afraid to say how they truly feel, we give it immense power.
” She also shared that she was “disturbed” by the “clickbait” headlines and outpouring of concern that resulted from her comments. “By making such a big d.
