{"id":329620,"date":"2025-12-07T04:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/329620\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T04:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:34:21","slug":"cindy-crawfords-son-presley-gerber-opens-up-about-his-mental-health-struggles-in-emotional-video-its-kind-of-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/329620\/","title":{"rendered":"Cindy Crawford&#8217;s Son Presley Gerber Opens Up About His Mental Health Struggles in Emotional Video: &#8216;It&#8217;s Kind of Scary&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Presley Gerber shared a candid video on Instagram about where he is on his mental health journey<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gerber said he is opening up about his journey in hopes of making others feel less alone<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gerber is the son of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/all-about-cindy-crawford-kids-7642501\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Presley Gerber;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Presley Gerber<\/a> is getting candid about his mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 26-year-old model son of <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/cindy-crawford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cindy Crawford;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cindy Crawford<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/rande-gerber\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rande Gerber;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rande Gerber<\/a> shared a detailed update on his mental health journey in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DRvAgJFkklO\/?igsh=MXBvaGY0ZG1uczQ2dA%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:video;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">video<\/a> posted on Instagram, on Monday, Dec. 1, after being <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/health\/presley-gerber-raising-mental-health-awareness-after-therapy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:open about his mental health struggles;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">open about his mental health struggles<\/a> in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI feel like honesty is the best policy\u2026,\u201d Presley began in the clip while sitting in a sauna. He went on to share that he is currently on several depressant medications, including Buprenorphine, Xanax and valium, to treat his \u201cpanic attacks\u201d amid his mental health struggles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201c&#8230;The benzos have been fluctuating up and down depending on what&#8217;s been going on in my life,\u201d Presley continued. \u201cUnfortunately, I&#8217;ve had a lot of loss in many different forms recently, so that is not an excuse, but it&#8217;s the reason why I am where I&#8217;m at now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 26-year-old said that he takes Xanax \u201cwhen the panic attacks are really, really bad,\u201d and valium \u201ca little bit in the morning,\u201d adding, \u201cI don\u2019t know if it&#8217;s a little bit or a lot, who f&#8212;&#8212; knows at this point anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Presley shared his concerns about using the medications and the different opinions he\u2019s received from doctors about his treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe doctors say a lot of different things, so it&#8217;s kind of scary, but hopefully between my research and their research \u2026 and God, we can figure this out,\u201d he said. \u201c&#8230;The things that scare me are the things you need to take \u2026 if you don&#8217;t take them, something not good happens. And there&#8217;s a spectrum there on how intense the withdrawal from certain medications is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Presley said that, despite having seen several doctors, he feels like he doesn\u2019t have \u201cas much direction as I would like to have\u201d on his treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI&#8217;d like doctors to be like, \u2018Take this three times a day\u2019 \u2026 but every psychiatrist I\u2019ve had \u2014 I\u2019ve had 15 \u2014\u00a0are like, \u2018Here&#8217;s 20 medications and take this if you feel like this \u2026 and I&#8217;m like, \u2018No, don&#8217;t get me that much leeway.\u2019 I need some direction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Alexander Tamargo\/Getty Cindy Crawford (left) and her son Presley Gerber in 2024\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1eb9701eb4b1bb921de95b1685825a0c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alexander Tamargo\/Getty<\/p>\n<p> Cindy Crawford (left) and her son Presley Gerber in 2024<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Presley shared that he\u2019s found other ways to help improve his mental health, like working out and has stopped drinking alcohol. He said that he also hopes to find a community of people who are \u201cgood influences on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAs I&#8217;ve grown up in Hollywood, there\u2019s a lot of people around me that I love to death, but right now I try not to be around them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u00a0PEOPLE&#039;s free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u00a0PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Presley said that he hopes his latest video \u201creaches people in many ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;A. So you feel like you\u2019re not alone, because that is how I feel most of the time and I have a feeling that if I say all of this, a lot of people will at least know that there&#8217;s someone else going through it,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the second thing is, hopefully I find some people out here and are willing to help or know someone that can help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you or someone you know needs mental health help, text &#8220;STRENGTH&#8221; to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 to be connected to a certified crisis counselor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/cindy-crawford-s-son-presley-gerber-discusses-his-mental-health-struggles-11860159\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Presley Gerber shared a candid video on Instagram about where he is on his mental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,120467,84,393,394,144620,114797],"class_list":["post-329620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cindy-crawford","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-presley-gerber","tag-rande-gerber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}