Josh Brolin Talks Stress and Moving Home

Have you ever been so scared of doing something it resulted in a medical condition? For Josh Brolin, this reality has already happened, and he can tell you that it’s not nice.

You might not exactly get why his hometown would scare him so much, especially since he’s a grown man, but it did and he was down with palsy as a result.

Josh Brolin Recalls Getting Palsy From Extreme Stress

Who knew a move back to one’s hometown could be so stressful as to cause a mild case of the palsy? On SiriusXM’s “Literally! With Rob Lowe,” Brolin, 56, revealed he suffered from Bell’s Palsy due to growing extremely anxious over his move back home.

” I moved back recently,” Brolin said. “Can you believe it, moving back to this area?”

Host Rob Lowe replied, “There’s ghosts on every corner for you, right?”

The star went on to explain that his high anxiety ratio translated to him contracting Bell’s Palsy, whose symptoms is said to include temporary weakness or paralysis of facial muscles.

“I got so stressed out about moving here because it represented something very specific to me that I ended up contracting a mild case of Bell’s Palsy,” Brolin said. “From the stress. Absolutely a hundred percent. There’s nothing else to blame it on.”

In case you think he’s working on false diagnosis, he revealed that this scenario has taken place only twice, and under very similar circumstances.

He added, “The last time I got Bell’s Palsy was 17 years ago when I was thinking about moving back up here. So the two times I’ve gotten Bell’s Palsy are when I was thinking about moving up here.”

The thing is, for all the anxiety that came with the move, once he was settled in, he actually started enjoying it. “Not only that, all these good memories are starting to come up. I’m like, wow, I remember when I was on Biltmore, we’re down in Butterfly. Was it Miramar? All these great things.”

He continued: “So all these things are popping out of the ground. My childhood wasn’t as severe as I illustrated it to be, writers and storytellers make everything more dramatic not that it wasn’t, because I think it was, but, all the other stuff came too, and it’s been really nice.”

So basically this is called stressing over nothing.

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