Nessa Barrett reveals she was sectioned in psych ward amid bitter mental health struggles

TikTok influencer and musician Nessa Barrett got candid about her mental health when she revealed she got back from the psych ward three weeks ago – calling it ‘traumatizing’ and ‘hell’ – due to her long battle with anxiety, depression and borderline personality disorder. 

Nessa Barrett, originally from New Jersey, rose to fame by posting lip-syncing videos to TikTok and later moved to California to pursue a singing career. 

The influencer acquired over 26 million followers on both TikTok and Instagram and gained widespread recognition for her music, but the social media star has been determined to remain authentic with her fans as she frequently details her struggles with mental health. 

On Wednesday, Nessa revealed she was sent to a psych ward for the first time as an adult in a brutally candid TikTok video. 

Nessa Barrett got candid about her mental health and revealed she spent three weeks at a psych ward

On Wednesday, the influencer revealed she was sent to the psych ward for the first time as an adult in a video she posted to her TikTok

The influencer has frequently been candid about her struggles with borderline personality disorder, depression and anxiety

‘Three weeks ago I just got back from the psych ward, I was admitted into a mental hospital,’ she said in her video. 

The TikTok star added that only her ‘close friends and family’ knew and that she ‘had been in [a mental hospital] before,’ but this was ‘different’ because she’s no longer an ‘adolescent.’ 

‘It was terrible, traumatizing and hell for me,’ she said.

She then revealed she spent many ‘sleepless night’ thinking about what she had to  be grateful for before revealing she also struggled with an eating disorder and was in ‘recovery.’ 

Her video comes after the recent death her friend and fellow influencer Cooper Noriega, who died at 19 and whose cause of death is still unknown. 

Nessa also recently suffered an extremely public breakup with ex-boyfriend Jaden Hossler, 21, the two confirmed their breakup in May with Nessa adding that she needed to ‘focus on [her] mental health.’ 

The influencer and songstress was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder or BPD when she was 18 and later revealed she suffered from an eating disorder as a result. 

In an interview with Nylon, the singer revealed her eating disorder began when she was just 12 years old. 

‘Sometimes I would hide my dinner, or say that I was eating it in my room and flush it down the bathroom toilet. 

‘I would try to see how long I could go without eating any food,’ she said.

 The video comes just two months after she suffered the death of her friend and fellow influencer Cooper Noriega, (pictured) whose cause of death is still unknown                              

Nessa also recently faced a very public breakup with musician Jaden Hossler and noted that they broke up so she could ‘focus on [her] mental health’

 Nessa was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder or BPD when she was 18 and later revealed she suffered from an eating disorder as a result

The 20-year-old has used her music as an outlet to connect with fans in a vulnerable way and detailed her suicide attempt in a song titled 911

The star also got candid about her suicide attempt in a snippet of an unreleased song titled 911. 

The song details her suicide attempt from four years ago and even includes the 911 call her father made when he found her unconscious. 

‘[I] wrote a song the other night about my first suicide attempt. Nessa explained in the caption of her video that shared a glimpse of the song.  

‘My dad was the one who found me so we used his voice on it. This is how I cope,’ Nessa explained in the caption of her since-deleted video that shared a glimpse of the song. 

The song begins with the distressing 911 call her dad placed at the time. 

 ‘911, what’s your emergency? Hello? Please send somebody here, right now. I have my daughter, my daughter, I think she took some pills. There’s a bottle here and it’s like, almost empty. Please hurry up. Bring somebody now,’ the chilling audio message says. 

She then starts singing, revealing that her ‘demons are [her] only friends.’

The social media star has been known to use her music as an outlet for connecting with fans in a vulnerable way who are struggling with mental health.