Ruby Wax
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Podcast Appearances
It's just screaming in a man's voice.
And then eventually it's so loud, and your head feels like it's being filled with petrol, which is the cortisol.
I can actually feel it.
And then it's dead.
There's nothing.
It's like...
in the beginning of that Beatle album where it goes that noise.
It's white noise now, and you're unable to move.
And everything gets really slow.
And you try to pretend you are still who you are if somebody comes over and visits, but they can't tell you're imitating who you are.
You're doing a rough approximation.
And then they leave the room, and you're gone.
So people think it's sad, or people think it's mourning.
You're dead.
You might as well be dead.
And people say, in my show, I always have the second half question and answer.
And I've had people with cancer and depression stand up, quite a few.
And I always say, which is worse?
They always say the depression, because you get no sympathy.
If you could wear a headscarf for depression,