Jake Humphrey

She said the second thing, all the pain is coming from you fighting these feelings, thinking a non-real thing is real.

So you're fighting, fighting, fighting.

She said, it's not real, so stop fighting it.

Just accept it.

that strange thoughts particularly she said particularly young men which i think is really interesting she said she described it as an existential period that a lot of young men and men go through she said men have this and think it's real and it's a and that's why suicide rates are so high and why so many men struggle she said you need to accept that this is just literally imagination and nothing more let it go and and that and that was it

And it was 20 years ago.

And I've not had a flare-up, a recurrence.

I feel mentally, like, exceptional.

But if I hadn't been on the tube and opened the newspaper that day, who knows how that might have ended.

What's the biggest misconception about therapy and what actually happens in a session?

I was always worried they'd try and place blame.

So when I first went to therapy, I was always worried that they'd be like, how was your childhood?

And try and blame my parents or my mom on my alcoholism.

And that would drive me nuts.

But then obviously they never did that.

I had really weird therapy the first time.

I actually loved it.

I think he was either...

a controversial style of therapist or just summed me up straight away.

I'd like to think the latter because it makes him, you know, a more powerful, uh, kind of therapist, I suppose.