How come it seems a lot of celebs have severe anxiety disorders? How did they choose their profession know they were walking into something which would constantly put them in a fear state?

Lots of people have anxiety and still do stressful things. Many forms of it can be treated, or at least managed, and some people are just determined enough that they refuse to let it stop them.

If every moment of your life was watched and critiqued by someone for the slightest thing they can get a click or a view for, would you not also start having mental health problems.

Your entire premise assumes that they have anxiety before becoming famous. People’s lives change and so do their conditions.

Do you really believe a hunch of anxious people one day decided to become famous to increase triggering their anxiety?

People become entertainers for a myriad of reasons. Some do it for attention, of course. Others so they can pretend to be someone else. It’s a form of escapism to get away frm the anxiety of life. When fame comes along, they can no longer hide behind the chatacter, and the attention bleeds into their personal life, ratcheting up the anxiety. Similarly, many comedians tell jokes to hide pain. The pain is still there, just hidden. For actors like this, the anxiety is still there and the constant attention makes it worse.

The lack of empathy in celebrity culture is the real problem. The fact that entertainers are real people with real lives gets lost in the noise. When Emma Stone is off screen, and not promoting something, she should be able to go out to eat without being followed, questioned, or harasssed. She can’t, because as a society, we’ve choosen to treat her as something different than a person. She’s treat as a celebrity, somehow making it ok for her to be hounded everywhere. It’s no wonder many of them have anxiety.

Imagine not getting to live your life because of your job. Imagine people following you around to the store, a concert, or cornering you in a bathroom because of what you do for a living. It’s a failing of society that lets this occur, a general lack of empathy towards celebrity, not a failing on that person’s career choice.

Because it’s not good to give in to your anxiety and let it keep you from getting what you want in life.

You could look at it as they have an alter ego (the character) to stand up and not be that person, that worrier. A form of therapy by dissociation possibly.