List of people with an anxiety disorder
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Numerous notable people have had some form of anxiety disorder. This is a list of people accompanied by verifiable source associating them with one or more anxiety-based mental health disorders based on their own public statements; this discussion is sometimes tied to the larger topic of creativity and mental illness. In the case of dead people only, individuals with a speculative or retrospective diagnosis should only be listed if they are accompanied by a source reflective of the mainstream, academic view. Individuals should not be added to this list unless the disorder is regularly and commonly mentioned in mainstream, reliable sources.
List[edit]
A[edit]
- Adele, English singer-songwriter who had anxiety and panic attacks[1][2]
- Ben Affleck, American actor and filmmaker[3]
B[edit]
- Cardi B, American rapper[4]
- Kim Basinger, American actress who had social anxiety[5]
- David Beckham, English footballer who struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder[6]
- Justin Bieber, Canadian singer who struggled with depression and anxiety[7]
- Kristen Bell, American actress who struggles with anxiety[8]
- Zach Braff, American actor who has obsessive-compulsive disorder[9]
- Bo Burnham
- Amanda Bynes, American actress[10]
C[edit]
- Earl Campbell, American football player[11]
- Michael Clifford, guitarist for the Australian band 5 Seconds of Summer
- Stephen Colbert, American comedian and talk show host, who had anxiety, depression and panic attacks[12][13]
D[edit]
- Carson Daly, American television host, producer, and radio personality who struggles with anxiety and panic attacks[14]
- Paula Deen, American chef who struggled with agoraphobia[15]
- Johnny Depp, American actor[16]
- Cameron Diaz, American actress who had obsessive-compulsive disorder[17]
- Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor who had obsessive-compulsive disorder[17]
E[edit]
- Jesse Eisenberg, American actor[18]
- Missy Elliott, American rapper who had anxiety disorder[4]
- Chris Evans, American actor[19]
- George Ezra, British singer-songwriter who struggles with anxiety and OCD[20]
F[edit]
- Harrison Ford, American actor who had social anxiety disorder[21]
G[edit]
- Lady Gaga, American musician and actress who has had depression and anxiety[22]
- Paul Gascoigne, English footballer who had anxiety[23]
- Whoopi Goldberg, American actress and television personality[24]
- Selena Gomez, American singer and actress[25]
- Ariana Grande, American singer and actress[26]
- Zack Greinke, American baseball pitcher[27]
- Rupert Grint, English actor[28]
H[edit]
- Colton Haynes, American actor[29]
- Taraji P. Henson, American actress[30]
J[edit]
- Kendall Jenner, American model and television personality[31]
- Scarlett Johansson, American actress who had anxiety and panic attacks[32]
- Naomi Judd, American country music singer and member of The Judds who struggled with anxiety[33]
K[edit]
- Nicole Kidman, Australian actress who struggled with panic attacks[34]
L[edit]
- Jennifer Lawrence, American actress who had anxiety[35]
- Emily Lloyd, English actress who had anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder[36]
- Heather Locklear, American actress and model[37]
- Demi Lovato, American singer[38]
- Kevin Love, American professional basketball player[39]
- Logic, American rapper
M[edit]
- Clint Malarchuk, Canadian ice hockey player[40]
- Zayn Malik, English singer and songwriter[41]
- Howie Mandel, Canadian television personality who struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder[42]
- John Mayer, American singer and musician[43]
- Jennette McCurdy, American actress and singer who struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder[44]
- Mabel Alabama-Pearl McVey, English-Swedish singer and songwriter who struggles with anxiety[45]
- Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter who had anxiety disorder[46]
- Ant McPartlin, British television presenter who has anxiety[47]
- Mina Myōi, an American-born Japanese singer from Twice who had to take a brief hiatus due to an anxiety disorder.[48][49][50]
- Bill Murray, American actor[51]
O[edit]
- Donny Osmond, American singer and actor[52]
- Conan O'Brien, American television host and comedian[53]
P[edit]
- Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress who struggled with social anxiety disorder[54]
R[edit]
- Daniel Radcliffe, English actor[55]
- Lili Reinhart, American actress[56]
- Ryan Reynolds, Canadian-American actor who has anxiety[57]
- Jon Richardson, English comedian who had obsessive-compulsive disorder[58]
- LeAnn Rimes, American country music singer[59]
- Winona Ryder, American actress who had anxiety[60]
S[edit]
- Ben Schwartz, American actor, comedian and writer[61]
- Amanda Seyfried, American actress, singer, and model[62]
- Sarah Silverman, American comedian and actress[63]
- Emma Stone, American actress who had anxiety and panic attacks[64]
- Zoe Sugg, English YouTuber, author and businesswoman who has anxiety[65]
- Marc Summers, American television personality and game show host who had obsessive-compulsive disorder[66]
T[edit]
- Charlize Theron, South African-American actress[67]
- Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and musician who had obsessive-compulsive disorder[68]
- Justin Timberlake, American singer and dancer who had obsessive-compulsive disorder[69]
W[edit]
- Sydney Magruder Washington, American ballet dancer[70]
- Wil Wheaton, American actor[71]
- Royce White, American basketball player[72]
- Mara Wilson, American actress and author who struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder[73]
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