Country music star Luke Combs has had a skyrocketing career through successful albums, sold out live performances, and multiple accolades for his hard work and unbelievable talent. From his hit album ‘This One’s for You’ released in 2017 to his most recent album ‘Gettin’ Old’, Combs’s success is continuous.
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His massive platform and heart-spilling performances brings nothing but chills and emotions out of us and millions of fans. Despite his rise to fame, he joined a few recent interviews to discuss his personal struggles with mental and physical health. One specific struggle he faces is with OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and despite the stigma surrounding this common mental health disorder, he opens up the dialogue on the various ways one can experience this, himself specifically.
He challenged these preconceived notions that OCD is solely physical such as performing a certain action or acting on compulsive behaviors. Luke's obsessive nature is more so within his mind and relates to the need to decrypt his thoughts and seek out why they're appearing in the first place rather than allowing them to pass by. The intrusive thoughts are debilitating to one's life and it’s a constant obsessive cycle from one thought to the next. Luke continues to explain how he copes with these paralyzing and loud thoughts, which others who currently struggle can use as a coping mechanism.
Thousands of fans took to social media to find relief in that someone they look up to has opened up this door to the mental health community & was undoubtably vulnerable about about these struggles.
Luke also discussed his personal battles with his weight throughout his life. Regardless of any negative comments on social media that have been made on his physical appearance, the drive to achieve a healthier lifestyle is solely within and between him. Combs's personal battle with losing weight and finding a healthier lifestyle is a big goal for him to not only better his life but his family's as well. He acknowledges that at this point, he isn’t content with his current situation and has incredible goals to be there for his family and show up in a different and more wholesome way.
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Fans admired his courage to be extremely vulnerable on a topic that isn’t widely discussed where he could be judged or ridiculed and instead was met with mass positivity and applause. With fans connected with not only him as a human but with thousands of others an no longer feel so alone.
More information about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
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