Nick Cannon is committed to protecting his mind.
Speaking with Iyanla Vanzant for his Counsel Culture Show, he shared that he sees his therapist “four times a week.”Cannon told Vanzant that he started going to therapy while studying for his Master’s in psychology.
“Part of the work was to make sure you actually spend time in therapy. But it’s been some years now, and I yearn for it,” Cannon explained.
“I first went in like, ‘Oh yeah, I’m just doing this to pick your brain and understand the process. I’m good.’ Then really spending that time. Personally, for me, those hours every week, I call it waste management. It’s where I get to just go and let it all out.”
Cannon says he goes not to “necessarily make sense of everything,” but “to verbalize, to have the opportunity to ponder and sit and sometimes cry, sometimes just breathe.”
“I always call it my spiritual bandwidth,” he said. “And I can only take so much before I have to get it all out.”
In 2024, Cannon shared that he was diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder.
“I still don’t understand it all the way, but I kind of always wanted to get tested for it. And I did a bunch of tests,” Cannon told PEOPLE. “I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD. Even as a kid it was dyslexia, but just knowing that I’m just a neurodivergent individual, I kind of always knew.”
Cannon said that will use his diagnosis to improve himself.
“I feel like there’s so many labels out there, but it’s like, to be able to embrace it and say, ‘Look, I’m healing. I need help. Show me.’ I just embrace mental health and therapy in such a strong way,” he says. “To be able to say I’m an example for others, but also be healing during the self-process works too.”