Maggie Gyllenhaal: [about her film SherryBaby] Obviously, I understood that all the things that happened in the movie were painful for her, but I didn’t let that into the work. Then all the terrible things I’ve had to go through surfaced after we’d finished shooting.
And I got over it. I don’t think I could play [...]

According to The National Institute of Mental Health, in America alone, more than 6 million men have depression each year.
Here are some excerpts from a Los Angeles Times article:
In May 2003, four-time Superbowl quarterback Terry Bradshaw embarked on a multi-city campaign sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, maker of the antidepressant Paxil, to discuss his own lifelong depression [...]

“Depressed, I have crawled on my hands and knees in order to get across a room and have done it for month after month. But normal or manic I have run faster, thought faster, and loved faster than most I know.” Kay Redfield Jamison
Depression can be a profoundly damaging and disrupting condition, spiritually and psychologically [...]

“Life’s just much too hard today / I hear ev’ry mother say / The pursuit of happiness just seems a bore / And if you take more of those / you will get an overdose / No more running for the shelter / of a mother’s little helper” “Mother’s Little Helper” by The Rolling [...]

Eric Maisel, PhD, is author of The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person’s Path Through Depression. In our recent interview, he addresses some of the meaning and mood issues facing creators.
Q: The kinds of anxiety we call stage fright, or fear of the blank canvas (or blank page) — can these be related to meaning [...]

Author, artist, performer, and creativity coach Janet Riehl interviewed Eric Maisel, PhD about his book The Van Gogh Blues: A Creative Person’s Path Through Depression. [Also see it on her site riehlife.com, with additional links.]
Janet Riehl: Eric, what I hear you saying is that when creative people in particular maintain a connection to their [...]

Princess Diana is among many people who have self-harmed. She admitted cutting her arms and legs, explaining, “You have so much pain inside yourself that you try and hurt yourself on the outside because you want help.” [From the page Cutting.]
Physical self-harm is a complex experience, not simply explained as just a cry for help. [...]

“So many good things have happened to me because of how unhealthy I’ve been mentally.” Judd Apatow
The photo shows Apatow directing his wife, Leslie Mann, on the set of “Knocked Up,” which he also produced and wrote. Other credits include “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,” and the acclaimed “Freaks and Geeks” [...]