The musician son of Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler reveals in a new interview that he was abusing alcohol while he went through 'heightened OCD, heightened ADHD and heightened anxiety.'
- Oct 18, 2023
AceShowbiz - Landon Barker has gotten candid about his struggle with alcohol consumption. When sitting down with PEOPLE, the son of Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler admitted that he was abusing alcohol while dealing with mental health issues.
"It originally started with a bad habit with alcohol," the 20-year-old told the outlet. "I was abusing it and just abusing that substance, and then one day it just shocked me, and I had gone through that for months... It was awful."
"And I went through heightened OCD, heightened ADHD and heightened anxiety, all while disassociating and feeling like I was in a video game. I was watching my whole entire life through a movie screen," he recalled. "It was honestly awful. I always love to spread awareness about suicide and talk about it."
Landon went on to elaborate, "Disassociating and dissociation kind of just hit me like a truck last year and it was just the most awful experience. It kind of started with: I would drink, and then the day after, I would disassociate really bad, and that's kind of how my habit of drinking a lot started." He added, "It was like, oh, I'd feel better the second that I had a drink, and so yeah, it kind of just all started and it all kicked up really fast."
Landon claimed his derealization experiences got worse after he got a concussion "around this time last year." He explained, "When I got my concussion, I kind of just had to deal with it, and I would just, I don't know, I just hated life for three or four months. It was pretty awful... I remember I would just go to the hospital once a week just because I would have such bad panic attacks from everything that was going on. The disassociation happened first and then it all just got worse when I went through my concussion."
It was such an eye-opening moment for Landon that he vowed to never experience the same thing again. "I feel like eventually when you get through and get to the other side of everything and see the light in what you have and the people around you, it's honestly the biggest inspiration to keep going out of everything," he stated.
