<p id=”par-1_48″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/nick-cannon/”>Nick Cannon</a> hasn’t only dated celebrities like Mariah Carey, who he dated <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/mariah-carey-made-nick-cannon-wait-marriage-sleeping-together.html/”>for six months before marrying</a>. His relationship history is filled with women from all different professions and backgrounds. However, while dating, Cannon warned his future potential girlfriends what they were up against when dealing with him.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-nick-cannon-admitted-he-could-be-super-emo-in-relationships”>Nick Cannon admitted he could be super emo in relationships</h2>
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<p id=”par-2_34″>Cannon has been very open about some of the mental health challenges he’s faced that have interfered with his quality of life. He’s been dealing with neurological challenges ever since he was young. </p>
<p id=”par-3_28″>“Even as a kid, it was dyslexia, but just knowing that I’m just a neurodivergent individual, I kind of always knew,” he said in an interview with <a href=”https://people.com/nick-cannon-narcissistic-personality-disorder-diagnosis-need-help-exclusive-8753228″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>People</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-4_23″>As an adult, Cannon started taking his mental health more seriously. After visiting a therapist, he discovered that he had narcissistic personality disorder.</p>
<p id=”par-5_27″>“I still don’t understand it all the way. But I kind of always wanted to get tested for it. I did a bunch of tests,” he revealed.</p>
<p id=”par-6_45″>Some symptoms of the diagnosis include a constant need for validation and admiration from peers and a shortage of empathy. Cannon also asserted that he was told he demonstrated every marker for the condition. Still, he took the news as further motivation to improve himself.</p>
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<p id=”par-7_61″>“I feel like there’s so many labels out there, but it’s like, to be able to embrace it and say, ‘Look, I’m healing. I need help. Show me.’ I just embrace mental health and therapy in such a strong way,” he said. “To be able to say I’m an example for others, but also be healing during the self-process works too.”</p>
<p id=”par-8_40″><a></a> “I’ve taken all the power away from the term narcissism ’cause I’ve researched it and I understand it,” he added. “Call me whatever you want… now if I didn’t know what it was, then I have issue with it.”</p>
<p id=”par-9_74″>Cannon’s self-awareness has helped him identify what he needs to work on about himself. But it’s also helped him prepare future girlfriends for what they might have in store when dating the actor. <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/guide-nick-cannons-many-children.html/”>Cannon has had 12 children </a>with six exes and hasn’t been able to maintain a romantic relationship with any of them. In a 2016 interview with <a href=”https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/nick-cannon-talks-dating-fatherhood-losing-grandfather/story?id=39761533″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>ABC News</a>, he explained that his emotional side might be one of the reasons why.</p>
<p id=”par-10_32″>“I yearn for it the way everybody else does,” Cannon said about being in love. “I’m super, super emo so if anyone wants to deal with an emotional unstable artist, I’m here.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-nick-cannon-s-emotional-insecurities-contributed-to-the-end-of-his-marriage-to-mariah-carey”>Nick Cannon’s emotional insecurities contributed to the end of his marriage to Mariah Carey</h2>
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<p id=”par-11_57″>Cannon’s narcissism might’ve even played a role in his divorce from Carey. The couple shocked the world when they announced their separation after six years of marriage. They broke up <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/why-did-mariah-carey-and-nick-cannon-divorce.html/”>because of several reasons</a>, including Cannon’s ego. Speaking on the <em><a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P-yQBKtF7E&ab_channel=RayDanielsPresents” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Ray Daniels Presents</a> </em>podcast, Cannon revisited the identity crisis he experienced deep into his marriage with Carey.</p>
<p id=”par-12_34″>“I didn’t actually really care what the world thought,” Cannon said. “But going to myself, that pressure of, ‘Who am I?’ I got married in my 20s to the biggest star in the world.”</p>
<p id=”par-13_19″>He confided that his role in life shifted dramatically from being his own person to just being Carey’s husband.</p>
<p id=”par-14_39″>“My trajectory was [down] here and she’s already in a different stratosphere,” he said. “I would lay up at night thinking, ‘Is this who I am? Am I Mariah’s man? Is that what my life is supposed to be?’”</p>
<p id=”par-15_32″>But eventually, Cannon decided he couldn’t fit the part he played with Carey anymore. Although he tried to make it work, he needed to break away from Carey’s shadow in the end.</p>
<p id=”par-16_60″>“She got islands and I was waking up at noon and people bringing me steaks on a platter. But I’m like, ‘This ain’t the hustle,’” he said. “And then when you have children … your manship is like, ‘Wait, I’m carrying a purse, the diaper bag, I’m standing on the corner.’ She’s rocking being all the alpha that she is.”</p>