Brittany Snow dishes on significance of mental health, support in new book

Brittany Snow talked about receiving mental health support from friends in difficult time. She is debuting her book with co author Jaspre Guest, September Letters: Finding Strength and Connection in Sharing Our Stories.

In a talk with Bustle, she said, “In the past year I went through probably the hardest mental health challenge I’ve ever faced. In one day, in a matter of hours, my life turned completely upside down," she said. "I was blindsided and everything I thought I knew, held sacred and truly trusted in my life was completely different."

"A couple days later my grandmother passed away and I think every thing I knew about mental health was tested," added Snow. "Thank God for my friends. I don’t know if I would have made it without them. They reminded me who I was and the things I stood for."

Though she did not name anybody, she said one of her costars from Pitch Perfect movies helped her through it.

She explained how the year has been difficult for her and her girlfriends helped her back to health.

"The last year has been really tricky for me, and one of the girls, I just, you know, opened up her door and I just fell down to the ground and just cried and laid there," Snow said. "And she basically nursed me back to health for like four days. And it wasn’t the one that I thought was going to be able to do that, either."

Her book has the power to tackle and recognize that one can rely on friends at such times.

"I think that’s what’s really important about this book, knowing that a thing you can have in your toolkit is a community of friends that will just sit with you on the floor," she continued. "They don’t need to give you advice. They don’t need to fix it for you. They just are there."