“I dealt with depres­sion for a while by med­icat­ing with Prozac and although it was good for deal­ing with the prob­lem there and then, I wasn’t get­ting to the bot­tom of my anger and frustration.

“I think we have a real prob­lem these days in that every­thing is treated with a drug. I think there’s a whole new way of heal­ing depres­sion that doesn’t require drugs — and I’m writ­ing a book about it.”

Amen my Cana­dian brother.

Whether it be myself, friends or fam­ily I have had to deal with depres­sion in its var­i­ous forms and have seen the first hand effects of med­ica­tion — what­ever form it may take — and have seen the ways in which depres­sion is han­dled. Usu­ally the (west­ern) answer is med­ica­tion, then fol­lowed by quickly pigeon-holing and labelling the type you have and what can be done to deal with it.

Trust me when I say, it usu­ally ends up with a pre­scrip­tion either way. Which, as Jim points out above, is not help­ing the core issue. I think that’s why I, per­son­ally, am over­joyed that some­one in the lime­light such as Jim Car­rey is about to face his deep­est prob­lem and expose how he deals with it and pos­si­bly how you can. I find it very impres­sive and warm­ing to know that he is about to embark on this endeav­our.

Many put Jim Car­rey down for being the way he is, for doing the films he does, for being the comic he is… but con­sid­er­ing what he has had to deal with, how it’s affected his life and how he’s tried, and decided against the usual ‘cures’ (not to for­get that a lot of Hollywood-types seem to turn to drugs, in any form, as their end-all fix), he’s cer­tainly main­tained his san­ity to a degree and it hasn’t stopped him being who he is, and believe me, it’s not at all easy being your­self when you have such a shadow on your mind.

Some may say that he is going the way of the hippy, mind-altering, per­haps even Sci­en­tol­o­gist ways of help­ing with­out drugs, but I don’t believe he will become the Tom Cruise to Brooke Shields.

I com­mend you for the book you are about to write, Mr. Car­rey. I hope it helps you, the peo­ple I know are affected by this, and any­one else who seeks to heed your opin­ion and help.