Frankie Bridge has opened up in a candid post about her battle with depression following a challenging day.
The 36 year old singer, who has been vocal about her mental health struggles, confessed last week that she had been feeling down after falling ill.
In a recent update, the Loose Women panellist revealed that although she's recovered physically, she's still striving to stay mentally resilient, sharing that it took her an entire day to muster the energy to exercise in her family's home gym.
Addressing her followers in a heartfelt message on Instagram Stories, Frankie disclosed: "I have finally made it down to the gym. It's taken me the whole day to actually get here.
"My depression is absolutely kicking my a***, and I'm so over it.
"You know when you just feel like you do all the things you're told you're meant to do, and then it just still always comes back?
"I'm just so bored of myself. It is so boring. You know when you just think everyone around me must just be so bored of it as well, and I just I'm over it.
"But I'm here. I'm going to try and do as much as I can in the gym, because I know it will make me feel better, instead of just sitting around, eating s***, which is what I've been doing all day, which only makes me feel worse and I know that, so I don't know why I do it, but here we are back in the same old place."
After her workout, she updated followers on her improved mood, saying: "I definitely feel a lot better, and if I hadn't have come in, I'd have just berated myself even more.
"But I had the whole day that I was able to come to the gym, and I just didn't, I just sat around and just wallowed in self pity.
"And so I am glad that I did it, and I do definitely feel better for it. I feel like it's picked me up."
While she admitted to feeling regretful about 'not going in earlier', she confessed: "I just couldn't do it. Just couldn't get in here before now. So it is what it is.
"I should just be pleased that I've done it. So yeah, it's just a little reminder. Sometimes we have bad days. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better one."
She later said that she had been "questioning the point of life", sharing: "Like literally yesterday I was questioning the point of life and why I keep striving to feel better with anxiety and depression and wondering what everyone else's life would be like if I didn't have it, and thinking about people who just have braisn that work "normally"...
"And then today I feel great. I think the sun has definitely helped."
Frankie has been candid about her struggles with depression and anxiety, moving fans to tears in 2021 when she opened up about her experiences in the I'm A Celebrity jungle.
After disclosing her hospitalisation for a breakdown at 21, her campmate Matty Lee inquired about the pivotal moment in her recovery journey.
Frankie candidly spoke about her relationship with husband and former footballer Wayne Bridge, revealing: "Because I was with Wayne, I still remember being in the shower, and thinking, I love him, we'd spoken about marriage and kids and stuff, we had a beautiful home, I had a career I'd always wanted, but I just knew I was fundamentally unhappy."
She went on to express how a realization dawned upon her, stating: "And that was when I realised that something just really wasn't right.
"It was almost being happy made me realise I was unhappy, which is probably really hard for people to understand."
In the camp, she also brought up her battle with mental health and her wish to live without depression and anxiety.
