Claire Foy’s struggle with anxiety makes it hard for her to decide what to have for dinner.
The 34-year-old actress has admitted her battle with the mental health condition has been a real struggle as "anything can trigger it", including the simplest of things such as whether she should eat a potato or a hamburger for her dinner.
Speaking on Scandinavian talk show ‘Skavlan’, she said: "You could have anxiety about whether you should have a potato or a hamburger for dinner. That would be anxious for me. Is the potato the right choice? Is the burger the right choice? That’s how anxiety works, it doesn’t have to be based on anything extreme. It’s definitely not rational."
This isn’t the first time the ‘Crown’ star has spoken about her anxiety either, as she previously stated that whilst she has been fighting the illness for many years, she has found her condition has worsened since becoming an actress and finding fame.
She said: "When you have anxiety, you have anxiety about – I don’t know – crossing the road.
"The thing about it is, it’s not related to anything that would seem logical. It’s purely about that feeling in the pit of your stomach, and the feeling that you can’t, because you’re ‘this’ or you’re ‘that’. It’s my mind working at a thousand beats a second, and running away with a thought."
Asked about the specific thoughts she was dealing with, Claire admitted: "It’s lots of thoughts about how s**t I am. It definitely magnified when I started doing this. Exploded. Yeah."
And the ‘First Man’ actress says she even suffered a "breakdown" in her early 20s when she couldn’t cope with her own mental health.
She said: "When I was 23, I had a breakdown. I didn’t sleep or eat for a month. It was awful. My life had changed. I felt overwhelmed. I was on stage at the time and working, and I’d just got a really big job [the lead in the BBC’s Little Dorrit]. I just couldn’t cope."
Claire Foy: Anxiety makes it hard to make any decisions
