{"id":845277,"date":"2026-08-06T06:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845277\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:12:21","slug":"joe-jonas-says-solo-album-disappointment-led-him-to-start-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845277\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Jonas Says Solo Album Disappointment Led Him to Start Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJoe Jonas<\/a> is opening up about the professional disappointment that fundamentally drove him to prioritize his mental health.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the latest episode of the Hey Jonas! podcast, the Jonas Brothers<\/a> sat alongside one another to divulge into their success and the hardships that come with growing up in a popular band. During the conversation, Joe ended up revealing that the commercial response to his first solo album was what initially led him to seek professional help.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe reason I started doing therapy is because of the first taste of, like, not achieving \u2018success,’\u201d Joe says with air quotes, recalling the release of his 2011 solo debut, Fastlife. \u201cI released a solo album when I was about 21, 22 and it didn\u2019t do as well as I thought it would do because everything the Jonas Brothers touched back then, it would be gold. We would just \u2026 be a No. 1 [hit].\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJoe isn\u2019t exaggerating the success of his band of brothers. Since their debut back in 2006, they have had 26 songs chart on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>, as well as eight albums enter the top 10 of the Billboard 200<\/a>. Looking back, Joe admits he had attached too much of his self-worth to proving he could succeed apart from his brothers Kevin<\/a> and Nick<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI put something out by myself and I think I had a lot of high expectations of success without you guys,\u201d he told his brothers. \u201cThat was important to me somewhere in my core. I was like, \u2018If I do that, then I matter.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUnfortunately, emotional toll soon turned physical. Joe said he began experiencing panic attacks and persistent pain, resulting in constant visits to doctors. After multiple medical appointments, one physician thankfully assured him that nothing was wrong and suggested that he speak to a therapist, which he confesses was some advice he had previously resisted.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was like, \u2018What do you mean a therapist? I don\u2019t need a therapist. Why would I need a therapist?’\u201d Joe admits.<\/p>\n

\n\tInstead, he says he tried to cope with the mental turmoil by spending hours riding his bike through New York City, using the time away from his phone to avoid reading comments about the album. He confides in his brothers that it simply felt like the only way to distract himself, but it wasn\u2019t a solution; he was still running away from the problem.<\/p>\n

\n\tEventually, Joe decided to give therapy a chance, quickly realizing how much he needed it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI finally spoke to somebody after crying through the first question for an hour, realized how great it was,\u201d he said. \u201cIt definitely was so helpful during that season and it has been throughout my life and other major life things that I\u2019ve gone through.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNick echoes his brother\u2019s sentiments, piggybacking off of points brought up by Joe. Nick expands by saying therapy also helped him rethink how he measures something as subjective as success. Reflecting on the comments he made in a previous podcast episode, the youngest Jonas brother clarified that his struggles weren\u2019t about comparing himself to others, but rather placing too much importance on achievement.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI needed to be okay with myself,\u201d Nick said. \u201cI just needed to be able to look in the mirror and just be okay as a person, as opposed to comparing to others.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBoth brothers agreed therapy has been an essential guide to navigating the pressures of fame, and encouraged maintaining consistency with their mental health journeys.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the full \u201cHey Jonas!\u201d episode below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Jonas is opening up about the professional disappointment that fundamentally drove him to prioritize his mental health.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,9607,9057,1591],"class_list":["post-845277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-pop","tag-music-news","tag-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}