While
Chad
Michael
Murray was
reaching
a
milestone
in
his
career,
he
was
privately
struggling
with
his
mental
health.
In
fact,
it
was
during the
peak
of
his
fame
as One
Tree
Hill‘s
Lucas
Scott that the
actor began
battling agoraphobia, a
type
of
anxiety
where
a
person
fears certain
places
or
situations
that
may
cause
stress.
“I
was
around
23
and
I
had
an
event
in
Miami,”
he
told
The
Cut
in
an
interview
published
May
21, “but
I
couldn’t
leave
my
hotel
room.”
“The
world
felt
like
it
was
closing
in,”
Chad
continued. “I
was
having
anxiety
attacks.”
Two
years
later,
on
his
25th
birthday,
the
A
Cinderella
Story
star
decided
to
make
a
change.
“I
woke
up
and
felt
unsettled,”
he
explained. “I
didn’t
like
the
direction
that
I
was
going
in
my
life.”
“I
went
to
church,”
Chad,
who
also
turned
to
therapy,
added, “and
I
got
a
tattoo
of
a
cross
on
my
left
wrist,
and
I
was
like,
I’m
going
to
move
myself
in
faith.”
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