Check out David Remnick's story on Bruce Springsteen in The New Yorker. The Boss and his wife, Patti, talk candidly with Remnick about their struggles with depression:
You begin to see that something is broken. It’s not just a matter of being the mythological lone wolf; something is broken. Bruce is very smart. He wanted a family, he wanted a relationship, and he worked really, really, really hard at it––as hard as he works at his music.”
I asked Patti how he finally succeeded. “Obviously, therapy,” she said. “He was able to look at himself and battle it out.” And yet none of this has allowed Springsteen to pronounce himself free and clear. “That didn’t scare me,” Scialfa said. “I suffered from depression myself, so I knew what that was about. Clinical depression—I knew what that was about. I felt very akin to him.”
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ReplyDeleteI have nothing to add to Arthur Miller (no relation to Dinah Miller).
Patti didn't say anything about antidepressants. May we assume for the sake of argument that therapy did the trick for Bruce?
ReplyDeleteRob, Here is the contact info for Bruce Springsteen's agent: Shore Fire Media
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Brooklyn, NY 11201
Telephone: 718.522.7171
Fax: 718.522.7242
Email: info@shorefire.com
Maybe Bruce wants to do a guest post on Shrink about what sort of therapy he has and has had.