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"Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been."
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"I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn't see any way to change things.Only end them."
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"I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does."
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"Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable."
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"This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason."
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"The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower."
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"I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2."
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"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."
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"It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on."
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"Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been."
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"If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help."
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"I've just got a new house in Pacific Palisades. It's really cute."
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"I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason."
England
"The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while."
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"And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater."
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"Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me?"
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"When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure."
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"Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been."
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"The weather in England can really darken your spirits."
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"The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be."
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"My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago."
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