After disclosing that he was suffering from anxiety disorder from the last 2.5 years, Nicky Romero finally opened up about his ordeal from the mental disorder in an interview with Billboard. Speaking about the issue on length, Nicky talks about how he dealt with it, how David Guetta helped him during the time, and much more.
Talking about how he realised he had anxiety, he said:
I didn’t know what was going on with me so it took me a while before I realized that it was not just depression or lack of sleep. It was a pattern that I was stuck in. Rest would not solve the problem. I read about 10 books and spoke to 12 different therapists and they all had their techniques on how to recover, but they didn’t understand what I was going through. I didn’t know how to describe what was going on to other people. How can one possibly recover from something that people, even doctors, don’t understand? The book Paul wrote really describes everything perfectly — that there’s hope and how to actually recover as long as you follow the procedure.
Discussing how David Guetta helped him, he said:
David Guetta, was able help me out in many ways. I was too scared to tell him sometimes that I couldn’t perform or that I did not know what was going on with me because I was afraid he would ask someone else for help with something.
David was very patient. He was very positive as a friend and never put any pressure on me, which I’m really thankful for. He was one of the few people who was a true friend and still is. He told me he had similar symptoms a long time ago, at the beginning of his career, and found out how to get through it with his life. That was very inspiring to me because if David was able to do it with all the pressure, then I would say everybody can do it because he is one of the biggest stars among us.
Talking about his ordeal during anxiety, he said:
I knew from the beginning that all these feelings I was having weren’t really me. They were just thoughts that came up. There were thoughts that I wanted to quit music, but I knew at the same time that it was not me. I was just the one observing the thoughts; I wasn’t the thought itself. I could see that it was not me wanting to stop music, but rather this negative energy trying to take over. Music has always been my passion. I’ve never wanted to do anything in the world but music. The only thing that was holding me back was the fact that I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t access my creativity energy and that was what was holding me back, it wasn’t the music itself.
While Nicky Romero has won the battle against anxiety, his revelation about his condition does bring forward the issue of many DJs and producers suffering from depression or anxiety, with Blasterjaxx’s Idir Makhlaf opening up about his depression, and Benga opening up about being schizophrenic and bipolar, and does reinforce the fact that mental health needs to be taken more seriously.
Romero is now back on track, having previewed his upcoming anthem with StadiumX, while also starting work on new productions.
OOOOOOOOOH OOH OH OOOOOOOOHHH ! So happy to be back on new songs!
— Nicky Romero (@nickyromero) December 14, 2015
Source: Billboard
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