In a current TikTok video, the 19-year-old — who’s the daughter of Travis Barker and ex Shanna Moakler — detailed her struggles with “extreme” well being nervousness, together with the “actual and scary” signs she experiences.

“I have been combating extreme well being nervousness, and it is one thing I do not discuss sufficient,”
Alabama wrote within the put up’s caption. “It is extra than simply worrying it is a fixed combat with my very own thoughts. Some days it appears like I am sinking, caught in a fight-or-flight state I can not escape.”

“My signs are actual and scary: dizziness, head stress, eye floaters, mild sensitivity, derealization, and excessive fatigue,” she continued. “I’ve low iron, I can not drive, I keep away from vehicles, and I miss out on regular issues individuals don’t even assume twice about. Even when medical doctors say I’m okay, I do not really feel okay.”

Alabama went on to clarify why she determined to speak in confidence to her followers about her struggles.

“I am sharing this as a result of well being nervousness is invisible,” she stated, “however very actual and nobody ought to really feel alone in it, that is one thing I felt was essential to share we’re all on this collectively!

Alabama’s video featured images and clips of herself within the hospital, together with footage of her checking her vitals on pulse oximeters. Her put up was set to a TikTok audio of a poem about nervousness written by person Josie Balka.

“Nervousness and I do all the pieces collectively. That sounds higher than saying I do all the pieces with nervousness, however I do all the pieces,” the poem reads partly. “We get up and fall asleep collectively. We predict everybody hates us collectively. I hate us collectively. Nervousness and I do all the pieces collectively. We’re roommates. We reside collectively. Though some days it does not really feel very similar to residing. It feels extra like unease and discomfort, and struggling via conversations, and questioning for those who stated an excessive amount of or too little or the mistaken factor. It does not really feel like residing, it appears like floating besides closely and starvation with no urge for food and butterflies, however dangerous ones, it appears like I am dying, and nervousness agrees.”

In accordance with the Cleveland Clinic, well being nervousness impacts 5 to 7% of adults, and presents itself in two issues: somatic symptom dysfunction and sickness nervousness dysfunction.

Per the Cleveland Clinic, somatic symptom dysfunction (SSD) is “a psychological well being situation by which an individual feels considerably distressed about bodily signs and has irregular ideas, emotions and behaviors in response to them.” In the meantime, these with sickness nervousness dysfunction (IAD), often known as hypochondria or hypochondriasis, “concern that they’ve a severe medical situation or that they’re at excessive threat of turning into unwell.”

Alabama has opened up about her well being up to now.

In August 2023, the rapper shared a TikTok, by which she slammed body-shaming trolls, taking particular purpose at a slate of unflattering paparazzi photographs launched on the time. Alabama then addressed her weight acquire, saying she’d been recognized with a “thyroid downside and an autoimmune illness.”

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