Today on ?The View,? Rosie put her ?Idol? feelings aside and got personal, revealing her problems with clinical depression and demonstrated her unconventional therapy.
?What you do and it?s very simple, it looks scary but it?s not. You go like this,? Rosie said as she hung herself upside down, dangling from a yoga swing. ?I?m upside down for an average of 15-30 minutes a day I do this.?
Rosie on ABC’s ‘The View’ this morning
By self-medicating through Inversion Therapy, Rosie said on today?s ” The View,? she has been healing her depression, brought on by the shootings at Columbine High School.
?It felt like it was happening to me,? Rosie said. ?I knew it wasn?t happening to me, those [are] not my children but I couldn?t stop crying. I couldn?t stop crying on the show. I stayed in my room. I couldn?t get out of bed.?
According to Rosie, the unconvential – and some say unsafe- therapy is said to help the blood and oxygen flow to your brain.
?It really releases the serotonin,? she said while inverted. ?And [it?s] good to have meetings like this with your staff.?
That?s not all Rosie revealed on the show, which spent their entire hour, completely devoted to depression.
?I too have SAD: Seasonal Affect Disorder, part of depression so if it?s sunny in Miami I instantly feel happy and if it?s gray and cloudy I feel like I?m being tortured by someone,? she said.
To heal herself along with her ?bat-like? swing, Rosie admitted she also takes doctor- prescribed medication, which at first she wasn?t receptive to.
?When I first started taking them I had [a] metallic taste in my mouth,? she said. ?I had head zings. It was zingy, I thought I?m not going to do this.?
Rosie held on and found the one that worked.
?I wanted to say to everyone afraid of the stigma of medication that . . . it saved my life,? she said.
Rosie on ‘The View’ (ABC)
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