Valerie Bertinelli shared raw video capturing the aftermath of an anxiety attack.
Bertinelli was struck by anxiety over the weekend and took time to fully calm down – with the star recording video of her hand, which was still trembling and glistening with sweat hours after the panic first struck.
‘I’m doing my best. Oof! The aftereffects of anxiety attack f**king suck. Jesus!’ Bertinelli, 64, said in the video.
In the lengthy caption, Bertinelli got real about her history with anxiety and admitted she hadn’t suffered an attack in quite some time, with the latest one taking her ‘by surprise.’
To calm down, Bertinelli, who recently split from boyfriend Mike Goodnough, meditated and did EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy).
‘I’ve sat on this post for a day because it’s incredibly vulnerable and that’s always scary to share. But I’m posting because we’re all out here doing our best having a human experience and none of us want to feel like we’re alone in that,’ she wrote in the caption of the video, shared Sunday.
Valerie Bertinelli shared raw video capturing the aftermath of an anxiety attack
Valerie, pictured on Today in 2022, said she was ‘weeping uncontrollably’ during the anxiety attack
‘Okay. Deep breath…here goes…
‘So I don’t know if you can tell from this video (and my heart is still beating a little rapidly as I write this) I had a really bad anxiety attack today. I haven’t had one like this in a very, very long time. A few hours ago, I was weeping uncontrollably, and my heart felt like it was pounding out of my chest. I couldn’t stop shaking.
‘I know I’m taking a chance, but, I want to share it because I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one out here who has experienced this. Gratefully these attacks have become much more infrequent, so this one took me a little bit by surprise today. This is the after effect. As I’m going through the actual attack (lol attack is such an appropriate word. My body and my mind feels like it’s actually under attack) Anyway…
‘I almost disᴀssociate and am focused solely on calming down and finding any road to a more relaxed and peaceful body. Because I know it’s just my brain overthinking and catastrophizing but my body goes into overdrive and I have no control over it.
‘Hours later, as I’m doing my best to meditate and EMDR my way out of this, this is the after effect that I can’t quite seem to calm all the way yet.
‘Part of me is fascinated by what the human body is capable of when our feelings can get in the way or override any reasonable thought and another part of me is just curious on how all of this happens, you know the weird neuropathies in our brain and how it affects our bodies, what feelings (which are just information btw) are and why are they so powerful that they make our body go into overdrive.
‘Anyone else experience an extreme anxiety attack, and then the after effects still take a bit to calm?
‘Tell me I’m not the only one out here and is there anything that you have also found to be helpful?
‘I’m doing my best. Oof! The aftereffects of anxiety attack f**king suck. Jesus!’ Bertinelli, 64, said in the video
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‘Anyway…this little bit of vulnerability is brought to you by someone who wants you to know you’re not alone. Love you.’
Bertinelli’s anxiety attack comes several weeks after she split from boyfriend Mike Goodnough after 10 months of dating.
‘They are no longer in a relationship,’ a source told People earlier this month
The couple met on Instagram and at first it was strictly platonic, but then they became close in January 2024 because it ‘felt familiar’ and there was a ‘a comfort level.’
They went Instagram official in April 2024 and hit their first red carpet together two months later.
Bertinelli’s anxiety attack comes several weeks after she split from boyfriend Mike Goodnough; pictured June
The actress told People in July that being a long-distance couple was ‘challenging.’
When she first went public with the romance, she explained the attraction.
‘His voice had the most beautiful timbre. I was like, ‘Oh, I can’t talk to this man right now because that’s really Sєxy,” she said.
‘We both had strong feelings, trying not to admit them,’ she added.