Noah Cyrus Struggled with Addiction, Anxiety and Depression. Now, 'I Feel a Huge Disconnect' from That Girl (Exclusive)

Noah Cyrus is happier and healthier than ever.

In her caller digital screen story, Cyrus opens up to PEOPLE astir overcoming a "dark" time, which included confronting a Xanax addiction and taking power of her intelligence health.

“I consciousness a immense disconnect from nan woman who was really struggling pinch addiction and nan spot that I was in,” says Cyrus, 25, who sewage hooked connected nan downer while successful a erstwhile relationship.

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She knew she needed thief erstwhile she fell dormant during an question and reply while promoting a task successful 2020.

“Whenever I look astatine that clip successful my life, I'm conscionable really profoundly saddened for myself, because only you really cognize what you're emotion inside, and it's a emotion that I don't wish connected anyone, to not want to beryllium live anymore,” Cyrus says. “I very overmuch promote group to talk astir things if they're unfastened and if they're fresh to effort to activity that thief for themselves. Because I do deliberation that you get to different constituent successful life if you person nan expertise to effort to return connected nan situation of moving and moving connected that process. I deliberation location is simply a spot that you get to wherever you person a overmuch amended outlook connected things, and you commencement to spot a overmuch much affirmative spot that you're going to get to.”

Cyrus — who released her sophomore medium I Want My Loved Ones to Go pinch Me successful July — recovered alleviation erstwhile she reprioritized herself and sought treatment.

“I was struggling pinch terrible slump and terrible anxiety, and that was really difficult to juggle while touring and not taking due attraction of myself aliases allowing myself to do nan due therapy,” she says.

Now, Cyrus is much mindful astir taking breaks successful betwixt projects.

“The 1 point that I'm really passionate astir and that I cognize is that I want to support surviving life. I do consciousness for illustration I'm successful nan happiest and strongest spot successful my life," she adds.

Making euphony has been “healing,” too, Cyrus says.

“It was rather a cathartic acquisition creating nan record,” she says of I Want My Loved Ones to Go With Me, which she'll circuit this fall. “Some of nan songs do consciousness a spot ineffable and a spot belief successful a way, wherever you whitethorn not beryllium precisely talking astir religion, but it feels for illustration you're connecting to thing larger than yourself.”

Cyrus besides recovered a supportive partner successful her fiancé, nan manner designer known arsenic Pinkus, pinch whom she hopes to commencement a family.

“I want to beryllium a mom. This is thing that I want much than immoderate different extremity successful my life,” she says. “And that besides ignited truthful overmuch much excitement for me. I want to beryllium live for this; I want this to happen. And that was conscionable thing that I wasn't utilized to feeling, because before, I didn't really consciousness that connected to life. So this is simply a very beardown spot that I'm recently in; I'm successful nan happiest and best, astir unafraid spot I've been successful in a very agelong clip . . . and I deliberation that nan medium was a immense helping manus successful getting to this place.”

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