Bruce Springsteen has opened up about his fight with depression.
The singer has been honest about his mental health in recent years, and wrote about his struggle with it in his book Born To Run.
“I was crushed between 60 [years olds] and 62, good for a year, and out again from 63 to 64. Not a good record,” he wrote.
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The New Jersey native revealed in his memoir that his wife, Patti Scialfa, was the one who noticed he needed help.
“Patti will observe a freight train bearing down, loaded with nitroglycerin and running quickly out of track,” he also wrote.
“She gets me to the doctors and says, ‘This man needs a pill.'”
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The 66-year-old’s father also suffered from depression – and admitted that the illness was seen as mysterious and embarrassing as a child.
“You don’t know the illness’s parameters,” Bruce told Vanity Fair in a recent interview.
“Can I get sick enough to where I become a lot more like my father than I thought I might?
“As a child, it was simply mysterious, embarrassing and ordinary.
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Bruce went into further detail about his father’s life and also admitted that he never heard his dad say “I love you” before he died in 1998.
“The best you could get was ‘Love you, Pops.’ [Switching to his father’s gruff voice.] ‘Eh, me, too.’
“Even after he had a stroke and he’d be crying, he’d still go, ‘Me, too.’
“You’d hear his voice breaking up, but he couldn’t get out the words.”
