Frankie Bridge shares worrying posts admitting she feels like a ‘worthless waste of space’ – Bundlezy

Frankie Bridge shares worrying posts admitting she feels like a ‘worthless waste of space’

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Frankie Bridge shared heartbreaking new posts on Instagram (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

In a heartbreaking new post, Frankie Bridge has admitted to feeling like a ‘worthless waste of space’ while navigating depression

The presenter, who is married to Wayne Bridge, took to Instagram over the weekend, where she spoke candidly about her mental health

Noting that she’d been struggling lately, Frankie began by sharing a selfie on her Stories. 

‘Sometimes this is what depression looks like,’ she captioned it. ‘Sitting on the sofa all day in your PJs. Then, being so fundamentally fed up of your own s**t, you finally find the strength to make it to the gym. Quick shower and back to the sofa and PJs. Better than nothing.’

In a second post, the Loose Women star added that she’d finally made it to the gym in a bid to ‘quiet the noise’. 

As she got comfortable on a yoga mat, Frankie addressed fans. ‘Spent a lot of the time psyching myself up and trying to quiet the noise in my head,’ she admitted. ‘Today it’s telling me I’m a worthless waste of space.’

Frankie Bridge shares worrying video
The presenter opened up about struggling with depression (Picture: @frankiebridge/Instagram)
(Picture: Frankie Bridge/Instagram)
Frankie told fans that she’d been feeling like a ‘worthless waste of space’ (Picture: Frankie Bridge/Instagram)

Frankie, who is known for speaking honestly about her experiences with anxiety and depression, has detailed her ongoing mental health journey. 

In an interview with The Guardian last year, Frankie said: ‘I was anxious from the womb. It’s who I am. As a child, my thoughts would happen at night-time: I’d struggle to breathe and have stomach aches. Depression came in my late teens. The doctor suggested therapy, and I was outraged. “I’m British. We don’t do that.” Then I realised anxiety had spilled over into something else.’ 

Back in 2011, Frankie made the decision to check herself into a specialist mental health hospital, which left her ‘terrified but relieved’, and in 2020 published her book, Open: Why Asking for Help Can Save Your Life. She has since become an ambassador for the mental health charity MIND and has continued to spread awareness on social media. 

More recently, Frankie, who shares sons Parker and Carter with her footballer husband Wayne Bridge, opened up about a particularly emotional moment with her youngest son. 

Frankie Bridge arriving at the Pride of Britain Awards, Grosvenor House Hotel. Credit: Doug Peters/EMPICS
Frankie has spoken openly about living with anxiety and depression (Picture: Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment)
Wayne Bridge, Frankie Bridge and family arriving at the BFI London Film Festival Special Presentation for The Wild Robot, Royal Festival Hall. Credit: Doug Peters/EMPICS
Frankie shares sons Parker and Carter with her husband Wayne Bridge (Picture: Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment)

Joining her Loose Women co-star Kaye Adams on the show’s spin-off podcast in March, Frankie admitted that while she has spoken with her children about anxiety, she has found it more challenging to explain depression to them, pinpointing a moment in which Carter found her in the ‘depths of despair’. 

‘I was having a particularly bad day, and I was just really, really crying,’ Frankie told Kaye. ‘And he came in and I just completely panicked.’ 

Recalling that she ‘wasn’t in the moment of having that kind of conversation with him’, Frankie told her son that she was experiencing a migraine instead, which prompted the most thoughtful response from him. 

Noting that later, on her birthday, the mum-of-two opened her present from Carter and found two boxes of Ibuprofen, Frankie mused: ‘He said to Wayne, “Should we get her something that can help with migraines because she gets them really bad, doesn’t she?’ And actually that was why I’d got them and I just thought that was so sweet.” 

Adding that she intends to have a conversation with Parker and Carter about her struggles with depression, Frankie said that she has yet to do so.

Need support for your mental health?

You can contact mental health charity Mind on 0300 123 3393 or text them on 86463.

Mind can also be reached by email at info@mind.org.uk.

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