In “So much better” Peg Parnevik talks about her panic disorder, depression and eating disorders in connection with her interpretation of “Stockholm” – a song she describes as her comfort song.
– Do I really have the right to feel bad when I am as privileged and lucky as I am? says the artist.
Peg Parnevik has previously been open about her mental health and that she struggled with anxiety and eating disorders. It was in connection with her starting to appear in the family’s TV series “Parneviks” and becoming a public figure that it started.
– I think it started when we became famous. When you become public, people think they can think and think what they want, and they will really tell you that “you are like this, you are ugly, you are fat”, she said in “Malou after ten”.
In “So much better”, Peg now interprets Jonathan Johansson’s song “Stockholm”, a song which is one of her own favorites and which she describes as her comfort song.
– I have had a lot of panic attacks, depression and eating disorders in my life, and at the same time felt a lot of shame about it. Do I really have the right to feel bad when I am as privileged and lucky as I am? says Peg in the show.
“I feel stupid for feeling so bad”
It gets emotional when Peg brings up the subject, she explains even before that she has ticked off an anxiety day the day she is to sing a song about anxiety. During the dinner, others have shared tough things they’ve been through, like Dogge Doggelito who talks about when he lost his wife to cancer.
– You hear everyone else’s stories and I feel stupid for feeling so bad. While I know it’s chemical and I can’t help it, says Peg.
– This song really sums up the feeling of wanting to escape, just get me out of here, I don’t want to, I can’t be myself anymore, she continues.
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