Demi Lovato opened up about groping for inpatient mental health treatment several times throughout her journey to recovery.

"I went to hospital treatment five times, and it [has] been something every time I walked back to the treatment center, I felt defeated," Lovato—who used

"And while I know that experience firsthand, I think the twinkle of hope was when I started putting into work." I think and I started— it worked, the program

they continued, "I think when I started finding joy in the little things of life, the faint light of hope began to change." And that was something that was so alien to me before, because I was so used to not seeing hope."

For Lovato, their fifth stay in a mental health facility marked a point of change in their mindset.

"I felt like I hit rock bottom and I just knew what I needed to do, it was to live a life of recovery," they said. "And that was something I pushed away for a long time.

These days, the "confident" singer says she's "grateful for what I've been through and what I've overcome.""

Lovato has been incredibly open about mental health and the fight against addiction in the past. In 2021, she released a documentary titled Dancing with The Devil, which told the story of a near-fatal overdose she experienced in 2018.

"There were a lot of stories going on at the time that I didn't know exactly what had happened," Lovato told ellen DeGeneres about her desire to straighten the record "I just wanted to tell the world, "Hey, this is what happened, this is how I got over it, And hopefully this will give you as well Hi, this trip was such a wild ride, but I've learned a lot and can't wait to share it with the world.

Lovato first revealed she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2011 and opened in 2023 about how she felt "relieved" after receiving the diagnosis.

"I had spent years struggling, and I seemingly dealt with depression at such extreme lows when the world before me was just ripe with opportunity.

This diagnosis helped Camp Rock Stars better understand themselves and begin their path to healing.