Depression And How To Survive It by Spike Milligan .. PDF

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Depression And How To Survive It by Spike Milligan .. PDF

In 1982, leading psychiatrist and TV presenter Anthony Clare interviewed Spike Milligan for the radio series In The Psychiatrist's Chair, a show in which Clare led revealing interviews with a range of celebrities. He was so overwhelmed by Milligan's account of his forty years of depressive experiences that he knew he had found the person to help him illuminate and explore the mysterious and sometimes terrifying illness that is clinical depression.

Spike Milligan has revealed the dark side of his life in this volume. He recalls the triumphs of his childhood, his highly strung mother, his largely absent father, the cruelties of a colonial upbringing and of sadism towards animals, the break up of his first marriage, the mortar bomb which blew him up in Italy and the overwork which gave him a mental breakdown during the Goon Show.

It charts the development of this depression and his strategies for dealing with this illness whether they were improvised, as in when he would get drunk with Peter Sellers, and clinically with his discussions with Clare.

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