Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others<\/a>\u201d two weeks ago, revealing how abuse, chaos, and a failure to learn to love himself plunged him into depression and anxiety. After moving to Austin, Texas, the actor\u2019s struggles came to a head a few years ago.<\/p>\n\u201cMy particular upbringing and the way that it molded me and shaped me brought me to a lot of these ends,\u201d Levi recently told CBN\u2019s Faithwire, noting how his life suddenly devolved. \u201cI completely fell apart. I was surrounded by darkness [, and] had nothing but lies being spewed into my ear.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cI really came to the point where I \u2026 didn\u2019t want to live \u2026 and I didn\u2019t know what to do.\u201d Levi said he wanted to \u201cgo to sleep and not wake up anymore,\u201d but family members and friends intervened to help guide him along his mental health journey.<\/p>\n
Coming to the end of himself, he sought treatment and found healing through a woman who came alongside him and helped him see the value in loving himself and connecting deeper to his faith. The experience was quite trying for the actor, who was brought up in a Judeo-Christian tradition and always had faith in God. As Levi struggled, that belief was challenged.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so enveloped in the darkness that it was pretty much the first time in my life I could say that I maybe stopped believing there was a God,\u201d he said. \u201cI have always leaned into God and into my faith and trust and followed. I haven\u2019t done it perfectly. But I got to this place where \u2026 to feel abandoned and to feel like I didn\u2019t want to live anymore really, really, really shook my faith.\u201d<\/p>\n