Coronation Street star Jamie Kenna is continuing to be open and honest about his experience with depression and panic attacks.
The actor, currently playing Phill Whittaker in the ITV soap, recently appeared on Lorraine about the recent episodes that saw Phill and Fiz (Jennie McAlpine) get married, but also spoke about his mental health issues.
One thing Jamie suffers with is panic attacks, something that happens when your body doesn’t know how to cope with an overwhelming situation.
Typically, a panic attack happens because you have started hyperventilating and for Jamie, when he experienced his first one – he was in the middle of the ocean.
‘I’d swum the Channel only three months before and spent 5 and half hours swimming Windermere, but I pushed my luck’, the actor told The Mirror.
‘I was out in the Channel and the sea was too big and freezing cold and I went too far out. I had my first panic attack, but I happened to have it in the middle of the ocean. I was about 200m out and it was a very big, exposing moment.’
Now settled into Corrie life, Jamie has developed a big social media platform and wants to use the ability to reach thousands of people to his advantage.
‘I want to use my platform to help people’, he added.
‘I’m not afraid to turn round and say if I’m scared or worried. As soon as you say it out loud, it help calm you down.’
In Coronation Street, Phill was recently left heartbroken when Fiz admitted she doesn’t love him anymore.
Unaware Fiz has reunited with Tyrone (Alan Halsall), Phill recently humiliated himself during an attempt at winning Fiz back.
He arrived outside the factory playing Fiz’s favourite love songs, but when he held up the lyrics, he got them muddled – and the Underworld employees found it hilarious!
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