Recent Meat star Kimberley Nixon has shared an emotional video explaining the psychological well being situation that she offers with every single day.
The 39-year-old actress and author appeared alongside The Inbetweeners‘ Joe Thomas and comic Jack Whitehall in Recent Meat, the college impressed comedy which aired on Channel 4 between 2011 and 2016.
Nixon can also be well-known for her roles in iconic 2000s movies Wild Baby and Angus, Thongs and Excellent Snogging. Within the latter movie, Nixon’s character dates 18-year-old Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who’s now being eyed as much as play the subsequent James Bond – the good-looking satan.
On a brand new video on TikTok, Nixon speaks in regards to the psychological well being situation she has struggled with all her life, and the way it got here to the fore in a significant episode lasting for over two years following the beginning of her son in 2020.
She stated: “What you may not know is I’ve OCD – Obsessive Compulsive Dysfunction. I’ve had two main episodes in my life, as soon as in my third yr of drama faculty, simply earlier than I turned 21, and the second once I had a traumatic beginning with my little boy, triggering an episode that lasted about two-and-a-half years. I nonetheless take care of it every single day.
“Perinatal well being consciousness month is developing and I simply needed to say out loud that ‘it is okay, you are not a nasty mum.’ You are not nicely, that is all it’s. Your mind is glitching.
“It is extra regular and extra widespread than you can probably suppose, one in 5 folks can have some type of psychological well being situation throughout or after being pregnant, and I wish to take the stigma out of it.
“I wish to be trustworthy, my signs have largely revolved round really horrifying distressing ideas about hurt coming to my child.”
There’s quite a lot of misinformation surrounding OCD, with many suggesting that they ‘are OCD’ for any minor character quirks corresponding to turning off switches however in actuality, OCD is a critical and sometimes debilitating psychological well being dysfunction that impacts folks of all ages.
Fortunately, Nixon goes on to recommend that after receiving the remedy she wanted, she is now on a extra constructive path.
She added: “I lastly acquired the best remedy, and I am higher. I am doing nice. I simply wrapped up on an enormous job, which I am unable to wait so that you can see.
“I’ve a psychological well being dysfunction however I am higher and I am not simply surviving, I am thriving.”
