Selena is battling bipolar disorder

Singer Selena Gomez has revealed that she's battling bipolar disorder and said that studying her the disorder took worries away.

Gomez shared the news with her friend and singer Miley Cyrus throughout a tete-a-tete on the later's "Bright Minded" Instagram Live show on April 3, saying that she learned about her mental health throughout a visit to Massachusetts' McLean Hospital.

Gomez told Cyrus and the viewers that the more info she gathered about being bipolar, the easier it was to cope with the diagnosis, reports aceshowbiz.com.

She said: "When I have more info, it actually helps me. It doesn't scare me once I understand it... When I finally said what I would say, I wanted to know everything about any of it and it took worries away." "When I was younger, I was scared of thunderstorms and my mom bought me each one of these books on thunderstorms and she was like, 'The more you educate yourself on this, the more you are not likely to be afraid'. It completely worked.

"That's a thing that helps me big time." Gomez has been battling her mental health issues for years and searched for treatment at McLean Hospital in 2018 when her battle with depression and anxiety became over-bearing. She bounced back and accepted the 2019 McLean Award at the hospital's total annual dinner in 2019.

She said in her acceptance speech: "I feel that we are better whenever we tell the reality and, so, this is my truth," she said. "This past year, I was suffering mentally and emotionally, and I wasn't in a position to stay all that kept together. I wasn't able to hold a smile or to keep things normal."