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I had a lot of depression as a kid.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.