Selena Gomez & More Stars Who Opened Up About Mental Health successful 2020

Clayton Echard knows what you whitethorn beryllium thinking.

How could the pb of The Bachelor feel insecure oregon deficiency assurance erstwhile dozens of girls are warring for his attraction and affection? But during his travel connected ABC's world show, the 29-year-old shared his personal struggles with assemblage dysmorphia upset and rapidly realized he wasn't alone.

"I had a truly affirmative response," Clayton exclusively told E! News. "A batch of radical were successful my DMs telling me, ‘I'm a antheral and I besides conflict with this' and women said, ‘Hey, it's truthful large to spot men are talking astir this and we conflict with this arsenic well.' I realized from that constituent connected that it's my consciousness of purpose."

Now, Clayton is utilizing his level to rise awareness about his acquisition with the disorder, described by the Mayo Clinic arsenic a information successful which you can't halt reasoning astir 1 oregon much perceived defects oregon flaws successful your appearance—a flaw that appears insignificant oregon can't beryllium seen by others. 

Since learning astir his condition, Clayton said helium has begun focusing much connected what helium tin power alternatively of what's retired of his hands.

Most recently, Clayton teamed up with ADAA, oregon the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, to stock his experience. He besides utilized the nonprofit to find online enactment groups and different resources similar webinars and therapists.

"We each person our ain struggles," helium said. "If I tin marque a difference…then it's worthy it."

During play 26 of The Bachelor, viewers watched Clayton autumn successful emotion with Susie Evans. During the season finale, the erstwhile NFL subordinate sent her home, lone to alteration his caput astatine the past minute. While their emotion communicative continued off-air aft the brace rekindled their romance, Clayton and Susie announced their break up successful September.

When reflecting connected emotion and dating, Clayton believes BDD had an interaction connected his astir caller relationship.

"I conflict with the assemblage dysmorphia, but I besides conflict with this alteration of gait successful my beingness for this uncertainty, the chartless of what lies ahead," helium said. "My dysmorphia fundamentally conscionable piled connected apical of the different struggles I was already facing with the amusement and benignant of having a self-identity situation from it. It made it truly hard for maine to conscionable beryllium my ain happier erstwhile aforesaid anterior to the full experience."

Today, Clayton is focused little connected dating and much connected helping others. And erstwhile the intelligence wellness talker is acceptable to manus retired a roseate to a peculiar someone, helium knows helium volition beryllium successful a amended space.