Cara Delevinge Opens Up About Her Struggle With Depression During Her Teenage Years

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Cara Delevinge recently opened up about her struggle with depression during her younger days and how she combated it in an interview with Net-a-Porter's The Edit magazine. The 25-year old star got candid about her past in her interview, sharing the lessons which she learned from her struggle and the things she wished she knew during her teenage days.

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The "Paper Town" actor spoke up about her mental struggle during her teenage years that left her feeling alienated and suicidal. According to the actor and model, she was often mistaken for a boy during her teenage days. She said, “If I wore the clothes I liked, with my short hair, everyone would think that I was a boy. I hated it. Even though I looked like a boy and acted like a boy, I wasn’t a boy.”

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Delevinge shared that being a teenager she lacked the ability to communicate and express her feelings which always made her feel different and weird as a kid. Her feelings led her to take a break from school at 15 and go through treatment of depression. She explained, "I wish I could have given myself a hug. I wish I'd known that I was still in there somewhere, that I wasn't my own worst enemy, that I wasn't trapped. That if you can hold on for dear life — because being a teenager can feel like you're on a rollercoaster to hell, that's what it honestly felt like to me — you can get through it. Time moves on, feelings pass, it does get better.

For her not being able to express herself was the main reason she started to dissociate herself from all the emotions, "I was very good at disassociating from emotion completely. And all the time I was second-guessing myself, saying something and then hating myself for saying it. I didn't understand what was happening apart from the fact that I didn't want to be alive anymore."

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Being able to pull herself out from depression through treatment Delevinge has learned some very valuable lessons throughout her fight. Most important among these according to her is that she relied on others for her happiness which was the reason she was the most unhappy. Only if she knew that she could be happy with her own self, things would have turned out differently.

Her advice for all the young people out there is, “Being a teenager can feel like you’re on a rollercoaster to hell, that’s what it honestly felt like to me – but you can get through it. Time moves on, feelings pass, it does get better.”

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The "Suicide Squad" star is nowadays ready for the launch of her young adult novel "Mirror, Mirror" which is based on a bunch of teenage friends and their struggle with life, self-discovery, pain, friendship, triumph and all the experiences in life which shape them as a better person for future.