Ruby Wax
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Podcast Appearances
Oh, um...
I can't tell, because I took it for depression.
I didn't take it for the regular menopause.
Yeah, maybe 30 years.
You know, the normal.
Everybody has a track record going through them of negative usually.
And I know why.
I mean, that's why I studied the brain, because I wanted to feel better about myself and realize this isn't everybody.
And why?
You know...
Evolutionary-wise, there's a reason for most things, but our brains aren't equipped to deal with now.
They're equipped to deal with back then.
So instead of just the usual, but I've learned how to deal with them, not that they go away.
It's more like a scar that's fading.
It becomes 100,000 of those voices that are coming so, that are just as if you're in jail and somebody's screaming at you or you're in hell more.
Like I always say, if the devil had Tourette's, that's what it would sound like.
It's just screaming so that you're limp now and helpless.
If you lift your hand, the voices are saying, you idiot, you lifted your hand.
You idiot, you stupid idiot.
Do you think you're lifting your hand for a reason?