'I grew up a pretty anxious and depressed kid,' Wilson tells Newsweek. 'When I found that I could make people laugh, that was my solution.'
) and Neal Brennan , talk candidly about their struggles with mental health, debunk stigmas within the industry and discuss the role their conditions have played in their careers., Wilson reveals he turned to comedy as a creative outlet to cure his wounded heart, which materialized in the form of depression and anxiety."I grew up a pretty anxious and depressed kid. I had a family that looked normal on the outside but was completely dysfunctional," he says.
"If ignorance is bliss, the opposite must also be true, where clarity is misery," says Brennan, who spoke to"I have this theory that maybe percentage wise, comedians aren't more depressed than the rest of society, maybe the rest of society just isn't talking about it professionally," Gethard adds. "What being famous does, is anything you're dealing with, it just pours kerosene on it because you're in the public eye," Wilson says."Once you get famous, there are all kinds of weird pressures that get put on you."
Many celebrities deal with fame just fine, but it may also be true that others are simply temperamentally unsuited to being famous. Fame is not necessarily destructive, but it can trigger pre-existing unwanted feelings for some.
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