As we all know, the former One Direction singer has cancelled his tour and public appearances as his crippling anxiety and depression sucked the life out of him.

Now, in an interview with VMan`, the singer says that he has dealt with his issues and feels much better about it.

He says “Since I explained that I have anxiety, I`ve diminished it because I dealt with what was giving me anxiety: feeling the need to uphold all of these f*cking pressures and these things that people want from you,”

“Once you let that go, the anxiety diminishes. It doesn`t really exist anymore because you only care about what it is that you want to give to people,” he explains.

“Whether they perceive that in the right or wrong way is ultimately not your choice. It`s out of your control,” he explains when he was asked if he believed in what pressures people put upon a singer.

“You can`t always control it, and you just accept that. With that goes the anxiety. Anxiety comes from not being able to control every aspect.” He says.

“It`s become ridiculous to me. Even angles of pictures can`t be taken a certain way because that`s not the cool way to take an angle of a picture,”

“Everyone`s personal opinions and what they believe in, how can you amalgamate all of that into one thing and expect that not to create a problem for people`s minds? That`s my personal opinion, [that] it`s not really that developing for us as people. That for me is the main reason why I don`t believe in [social media]: because I believe it breeds sheep and not lions.” He talks his minimal use of social media.

“I feel like my song-writing definitely developed, just because I`ve been doing it so much…It`s an evolution,” he tells the magazine about his upcoming album that too is very explicit about sex.

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