Frankie Bridge says she’s been “trying to quiet the nose in my head” by doing some exercise.
Frankie Bridge is struggling with her mental health and has felt like “a worthless waste of space”.
The former Saturdays singer has always been candid about her battle with depression and anxiety, and over the weekend, she revealed she spent most of her time “psyching” herself up to get up and about and do some exercise to help relive the stress.
She penned on her Instagram Stories: “Sometimes this is what depression looks like.
“Sitting on the sofa all day in your pjs. Then being so fundamentally fed up of your own s***, you finally find the strength to make it to the gym.
“Quick shower and back to the sofa and pjs. Better than nothing.”
In another post of her on an exercise machine, she penned: “Spent a lot of the time psyching myself up and trying to quiet the noise in my head.
“Today it’s telling me I’m a worthless waste of space.”
Frankie shared a similar post in March.
She told her followers: “I have finally made it down to the gym. It has taken me the whole day to actually get here. ‘My depression is absolutely kicking my a*** and I am so over it.
“You know when you just feel like you do all the things you’re told to do and then it just always comes back.
“I’m just so bored of myself, it is so boring. You know, I just think everyone around me must just be so bored of it as well.
“But I am here, I’m gonna try and do as much as I can in the gym, because I know it will make me feel better. And so sitting around, eating s***, which is what I’ve been doing all day, only makes me feel worse.”
Frankie later shared with her fans how much better she felt after her workout.
She said: “So there is not much that a little bit of Paramore and a workout can’t fix.
“I definitely feel a lot better and if I hadn’t come in, I’d have just berated myself even more that I had the whole day that I was able to come to the gym and I just didn’t, and I just sat around and just wallowed in self pity.
“It is what it is, I should just be pleased that I’ve done it. It’s just a little reminder we have bad days. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better one.”
Last year, Frankie said she had developed a better understanding of her illness.
She said: “When you understand that it’s a medical thing, it makes you feel like you’re not just crazy.”
Frankie previously entered a specialist mental health hospital after understanding that she “couldn’t cope with everyday life”.
The brunette beauty – who is married to former soccer star Wayne Bridge – told BBC Radio 1: “I’d reached a point where I couldn’t cope with everyday life.
“I was constantly crying and telling my partner that I didn’t really want to be here anymore.”
Frankie is “proud” with how she copes with her mental health struggles.
She said: “I still suffer with depression and anxiety but I just know how to deal with it better now.”
Frankie Bridge feels like a ‘worthless waste of space’ as she grapples with depression
