Chappell Roan says she’s been identified with extreme melancholy.

The “Good Luck, Babe!” singer-songwriter, simply named greatest new artist on the MTV VMAs, tells The Guardian she’s “in therapy twice a week” whereas on the street for her Midwest Princess Tour. The trek presently has her in London (Sept. 21), with a cease in Berlin subsequent (Sept. 23) earlier than she returns to the U.S. for a handful of live shows, starting with the All Things Go Festival in New York City on Sept. 28.

“I went to a psychiatrist last week because I was like, I don’t know what’s going on,” Roan shared with the publication for a profile launched on Saturday.

“She diagnosed me with severe depression — which I didn’t think I had because I’m not actually sad,” she stated. “But I have every symptom of someone who’s severely depressed.”

Roan’s signs have included mind frog, forgetfulness, poor focus and “a very lackluster viewpoint.”

“I think it’s because my whole life has changed,” she stated of her present signs. “Everything that I really love to do now comes with baggage. If I want to go thrifting, I have to book security and prepare myself that this is not going to be normal. Going to the park, pilates, yoga — how do I do this in a safe way where I’m not going to be stalked or harassed?”

Later within the article, she stated that “every time I walk through my front door, it just comes out of me … I can’t even help it, I just start sobbing and either being so angry at myself for choosing this path, or grieving how the curiosity and pure wonder I had about the world is somewhat taken away from me.”

The upside of fame: the chance it brings. “I get to feel the energy of other people. It’s so cool to have shows so packed and have so much joy in the room,” she stated. 

Roan — whose debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, and who has seen seven songs chart on the Hot 100 in simply the previous 5 months — isn’t alone in experiencing advanced emotions about fame (“I was warned that it’s going to feel like going through puberty again,” she instructed The Guardian. “My body does feel different. It’s holding tension in a very different way: I have all these new emotions and I’m really confused”). She’s bonded with friends within the business over the strain that comes with such a sudden rise, assembly up with Sabrina Carpenter and texting Lorde for recommendation.

“We’re both going through something so f—ing hard,” stated Roan of Carpenter in a latest Rolling Stone cowl story, sharing that the “Espresso” hitmaker “feels like everything is flying, and she’s just barely hanging on.”

Roan has been open about how she’s feeling with followers, too. In August, she penned an announcement on Instagram about setting boundaries with these participating in “predatory behavior (disguised as ‘superfan’ behavior) that has become normalized because of the way women who are well-known have been treated in the past.”

“I embrace the success of the project, the love I feel, and the gratitude I have. What I do not accept are creepy people, being touched, and being followed,” she wrote.

The singer-songwriter, now 26, has additionally been candid about pre-fame psychological well being struggles. Roan was identified with bipolar II dysfunction at age 22.

She described her childhood expertise in an interview final yr with the University of Southern California’s Daily Trojan: “Being bipolar, I was so depressed as a little kid and so angry. You just think you’re such a bad person, and don’t realize that you’re really sick and need help, and our parents don’t know how to deal with it. I think it’s like rewiring my brain to be like, ‘Actually, you’re a good person, and you’re creating a safe space and music for people to dance to.’”

In 2022, she posted on Instagram about her bipolar II dysfunction, telling followers “it’s pretty hard to keep it together” and steadiness work and fan commitments together with her remedy schedule. She famous, “I don’t really talk about it much, but it affects me daily and is a pretty big part of my music.” In 2023, she wrote about it once more on Instagram: “i am very fortunate and grateful to have my dream job,” she stated, however added, “This job is very difficult for me to process and maintain a healthy life & mindset. I already have difficulty regulating my emotions because I have bipolar 2 disorder.”

Read Roan’s newest dialog with The Guardian right here. Roan’s upcoming tour dates might be discovered on her official web site.