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I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.

My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

I am not a depressive person at all.

It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.

I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.