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Idris Elbais opening up about some of the unhealthy habits he’s hoping to break.
The London-born actor, 51, appeared on the latest episode of theChanges with Annie Macmanuspodcast and detailed some of the problems he’s working on in therapy.
“I’ve been in therapy for about a year now. It’s a lot,” he began. “In my therapy, I’ve been thinking a lot about changing, almost to the point of neuropaths [sic] being changed and shifting.”
“It’s not because I don’t like myself or anything like that, it’s just because I have some unhealthy habits that have really formed,” he said. “And I work in an industry that I’m rewarded for those unhealthy habits.”
Elba called himself “an absolute workaholic” which he admitted isn’t great for his life and overall well being.
“Nothing that’s too extreme is good, everything needs balance, but I’m rewarded massively to be a workaholic [compared] to someone that’s like ‘Eh, I’m not going to see my family for six months’ and I’m in there grinding and making a new family and leave them,” he explained. “Those are pathways that I had to be like, ‘I’ve got to adjust.’”
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“So I’ve been thinking about this a lot and oddly enough a lot of our childhood is really at the root of it,” theLutheractor added.
Elba said that through his therapy, he “definitely wants to” work on taking time for himself and finding activities that relax him. However, he’s been having difficulty with the task.
“I could work 10 days on a film, underwater sequences holding my breath for six minutes, and come back and sit in [his studio] and [feel relaxed], more so than sitting on the sofa with the family — which is bad right? This is the part where I’ve got to normalize what makes me relaxed, it can’t be all work.”
source: people.com
