Gabrielle Union

But when those reserves are low, I tend to get in some sort of little fight or flight mode and I start to get, I start to hover above my body and start to lose myself.

The woog for me is a completely made up word.

But I like to make up words a lot.

have been part of my children's vernacular.

And then they show up at preschool and start saying all these things and no one knows what they're talking about.

I'm like, I forgot to tell you that this is just our language.

Yes, it's the greatest.

My little Molly, when she was five, she went to kindergarten and, you know, or actually I think it was preschool.

And in our family, if you've got to poop, you've got to make boopas.

I was like, no, no, no, that's a different one.

Anyway, back to the woog, which is not an onomatopoeia.

It's just a word I made up, which I have found that depression and anxiety, in my case, tend to be two different sides of the same coin.

For me, it feels like the depression was first and foremost, and my intense desire to fight that, my intense desire to not allow it to be there and muscle it into something else started to create an anxiety.

So it's almost like in the Type A personality, the depression can manifest as anxiety.

That's just my own sort of feeling about it.

So I just like to encompass it all in this one word that I call the wug.

And I can be wuggy, can be wugging that day, or the wug itself can come get you like the boogeyman.

I also like to diminish it with a childlike nickname so that its power won't reign supreme over me.

I had snuck into the Oscars in 2000.

So when I lived, when they had it at the Shrine Auditorium, I lived across the street and I made a fake badge.