Jason Segel opens up about his mental health, says he “always struggled”

• Jason Segel is being transparent about his battle with mental health.
• The 43-year-old said he’s “pretty conscious of my own mental health”.
• Segel: “I decided there’s no reason to spend my life not feeling good”.

Jason Segel is being transparent about his battle with mental health.

In the brand-new therapeutic comedy Shrinking on Apple TV+, Segel, 43, co-stars with Harrison Ford as a man who seeks counseling for the first time following the death of his wife.

In an interview with an entertainment media, he claimed that the show, which is now streaming, is assisting in the de-stigmatization of mental illness, but he also admitted that he had begged for assistance “so many times” and “in so many different ways.”

“One of the things our show exposes is that, ‘Oh, we’re all mess,’ ” he said. “Like even the person you think is your authority, they’re a mess when they go home, too.'”

#Shrinking star Jason Segel talks mental health struggles with @djkevlar:

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“In my own mind, they’re not stigmatized. I’ve asked for help so many times in my life, in so many different ways… I have always struggled a bit with anxiety. And some sense that something is wrong.” pic.twitter.com/OaNgdh7k9S

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He explained: “I’m pretty conscious of my own mental health. I have always struggled a bit with anxiety and some sense that something is wrong and a sense of impending doom. At some point, I decided there’s no reason to spend my life not feeling good, so I tried to acquire some tools, therapy being one of them, to feel like everything is okay.”

Segel’s first comedy television role since How I Met Your Mother, which finished its ninth season in 2014, is in Shrinking. Josh Radnor played his best friend Marshall Eriksen in the CBS comedy, which also starred Jason Segel.

The “best friend” role was one that Segel played over and over, telling entertainment media, “I think what I brought to the table was I seem to have established some sense that I’m like your best friend.”

With Shrinking, he added, “What I said to them was, ‘We should push this character as far to the edge of likability as we can, and use this really good sentiment [that I’ve built up] for evil, and have him get it wrong. Have him get it wrong a bunch because I think that you’ll still feel like, ‘He’s doing his best.’ ”

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