Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik opens up about suffering from debilitating mental disorder in new video

Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik has opened up about suffering from a debilitating mental disorder in a new video.

The video was taken from the Big Bang Theory star's Bialik Breakdown podcast and shared on Instagram Monday.

The show has a tagline of "a podcast breaking down mental health so you don't have to," and during its most recent episode, Mayim, 47, detailed the characteristics of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The Jeopardy! host described: "what a lot of people don't know about obsessive-compulsive disorder is it's not just about liking your shoes neat."

She continued: what a lot of people sort of mistake colloquially is, 'I like to have things this way. I'm OCD."

The neuroscientist went on to explain that OCD "is a diagnosis that requires both obsessions and compulsions and the obsessions are the things that we think about or ruminate on.

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Fans of the Blossom actress rushed to post's comment section to thank Mayim for explaining the disorder.

One person wrote: "Totally. Too many people throw ‘OCD’ around like it’s a joke term. It’s severely debilitating."

A second fan commented: "Lifelong struggle with checking and counting behaviors here. Thank you for bringing more awareness to diagnosed OCD."

"Thank you for this. The abbreviation ’OCD’ gets thrown around a lot by people who need to normalize their mildly eccentric behaviors not understanding who or what they are minimizing," added another.

While a fourth commenter mentioned: "Yes! It’s a terrible anxiety disorder and it’s not fun. Too many people use OCD as an adjective."

In a YouTube video for the Child Mind Institute, Mayim opened up about her own struggles with OCD in a video titled, "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and What I Would Tell #MyYoungerSelf."

In the recording, the 47-year-old explained: "I grew up with and still have obsessive-compulsive disorder."

She continued: "One of the things that made my life really difficult was trying new things, and it's still really hard for me."

Mayim voiced: "What I found is that, with trusting other people and learning to trust other people and lean on them for support, you can make changes and still be okay."

The game show host concluded by stating: "Change is possible, change can be good and even when it's scary, it's OK."

BIRTHDAY BEDHEAD

Last week, Mayim showed off her natural bedhead in a new video that left fans doing a "Daily Double"-take.

While celebrating her 47th birthday and revealing an intimate glimpse at her home, followers spotted an odd item on her ceiling.

Mayim celebrated the big 4-7 on Monday, thanking her followers for the love in her candid front-facing Instagram video.

The typically glammed-up host was instead makeup free as her big day was starting.

Her cropped brown hair which is usually straightened flew free in large waifs around her head as she sported a casual Yankees baseball shirt.

"Thank you for your birthday wishes which have already started coming in, I really really appreciate it," the TV star began.

"I am heading to work [on the sitcom Call me Kat], and I look like this in the morning - no filter!"

Mayim shouted out her boyfriend Jonathan Cohen saying she might show off the "insane" gift later on after filming.

"You’re so pretty! Happy birthday!" one simply gushed.

Others poured over Mayim's makeup-free look but some couldn't get past the strange item hanging above her.

"What is on the ceiling? Happy birthday!" another follower commented.

"I have the same question," wrote a third on what looked to be a broken A/C unit.

"Made me look. There are two things going on. 1. A shadow of something. 2. A vent," claimed a fourth.

"I'm wondering the same thing!!!" wrote a mystified fifth fan.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

Mayim's sitcom Call Me Kat halted filming in October after the sudden passing of Leslie Jordan, who co-starred with her on the show.

Leslie died in a car accident on his way to film their show, per TMZ.

Mayim tearfully revealed in a recent TikTok: "We didn’t know it at the time that [this] was Leslie’s last episode,” she said.

“I couldn’t bring myself to watch it because I’m not ready. That week was so incredibly special because of our dialogue coach [Ren Bell] directing for the first time and just how much fun we had.”

Over the summer, Mayim and Ken Jennings, 48, were announced as the permanent replacements for the late, great Alex Trebek who passed away in 2020 at age 80.

More positively, Mayim is switching in for Ken in January and is set to host their first-ever High School Reunion Tournament airing in February.

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