Kelsea Ballerini Hits Pause on Social Media for Mental Health Reset

Therapy addict Kelsea Ballerini is going on a social media hiatus after the songbird began to realize the terrible mental toll all the cruel online comments were taking on her mental health.

Thankfully, the delicate country star, 31, has long seen the value in regularly seeing a shrink — she reportedly has a twice-a-month standing appointment with her own therapist, and also sees a couples counselor with her boyfriend, Outer Banks actor Chase Stokes.

The Love Me Like You Mean It singer revealed she would often go into a downward psychological spiral after reading negative posts about herself on Twitter and Reddit.

She was mercilessly trolled online after her 2022 divorce from singer Morgan Evans, with nasty commenters claiming she’d had a fling with Drew Taggart of the electronic dance band The Chainsmokers while she was still married to Morgan.

But then her psychologist gave her some life-changing advice.

“My therapist told me a while ago, ‘Kelsea, you need to care more about less,’” she said — and step one was getting off social media.

According to a friend, the CMA award winner is taking it one step at a time — she’s dumped Reddit and Twitter but still has her TikTok and Instagram accounts.

“She’s cut out the social media that caused her the most heartbreak — she calls it a social media ‘diet,’” the friend dishes.

“But her therapist tells her she’ll only finally be free when she just gets off all social media and lives her best life without getting dragged down by stuff that only causes unhappiness and anxiety.”