Harry Styles Revealed That He Went To Therapy After One Direction's Hiatus, But He Was Nervous About It

    "I thought it meant that you were broken."

    Harry Styles is a big proponent of therapy — but he didn't always feel that way.

    A closeup of Harry playing a show

    The musician recently revealed that after One Direction's hiatus, he was pretty reluctant to go to therapy.

    A closeup of Harry

    In fact, Harry says he thought that going to therapy meant that there was something wrong with you that needed to be fixed.

    "I thought it meant that you were broken," he said in an extended interview with Better Homes & Gardens. "I wanted to be the one who could say I didn't need it."

    A closeup of Harry

    But five years ago, Harry finally decided to start talking to someone, and he says it completely changed everything for him.

    Going to therapy allowed him to "open up rooms in himself" that he didn't know existed and stop "emotionally coasting" through life.

    "I think that accepting living, being happy, hurting in the extremes, that is the most alive you can be. Losing it crying, losing it laughing — there's no way, I don't think, to feel more alive than that," Harry concluded.

    A closeup of Harry

    And while it took Harry some time to "feel free" in all aspects of his life, he's certainly in a different place than he was several years ago!

    You can read the entire interview here.