Singer Sevyn Streeter, who after two EPs, finally released her first album Girl Disrupted earlier this month, is finally in a happy place. The 31-year-old, however, wasn’t there recently when she revealed that she’d gone through a battle with depression and had thoughts of wanting to take her life. In a new interview with The Breakfast Club, Streeter opened up further about it, saying that she tried therapy (“I wasn’t crazy about it”), and she tried prayer (“My mom is a minister, my aunt is my pastor”), but identifying her triggers and putting her emotions down on paper helped her the most.
“Today I feel great. I’m in a really good space because I figured out what my triggers were,” she said. “I handled all of them accordingly and dealt with them and faced them and I have a really great family. They were praying for me even when I didn’t want to pray for myself. And I write. Writing is super duper therapeutic for me. Extremely therapeutic for me.”
It took some time, but the singer and songwriter is feeling much or at peace and has learned to take things day by day.
“Honestly, I just feel like for the first time in a really long time, I am in the best place that I’ve been.”
In case you missed it, Streeter revealed to Vibe Vixen her depression and the many things piling on her at once that triggered it.
“Turning 30 was a big trigger for me,” she said. “This is not like when you graduate high school and you get your diploma. You go to college for four years, or whatever period of time, and you get your degree. You did it, and you get to move on. I’ve literally been doing the same exact thing everyday with the same amount of intensity and focus, since I was 15 years old. To look up and be 30 years old, and to feel like this hasn’t happened yet, but you can’t quit because you’re just going to be throwing away all the years that you put into it [music]. That in itself can take a toll. I don’t care what you do in life, you want to be successful, you want to feel like you accomplished certain things. A lot of my depression was triggered by the fact that I’ve given my life to this music, and it’s in a good place, but it’s not exactly where I want it to be. I sacrificed a lot of my childhood for music, I sacrificed a lot of my love life for music.”
“I looked up and I’m like ‘I’m 30, what do I have to show for all of the things that I’ve sacrificed?'” Streeter continued. “My faith level was at an amazing height all my life. I had never been in a place where I was questioning God so much. I knew well enough to know that he would bring me out of it, but when you’re in the middle of it, it’s hard to see [clearly] sometimes.”
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