“Something happens to you when you’re a child and it doesn’t really register. You go through adolescence, and you don’t remember it. Then, at about 19, a massive depression kicks in. This huge depression in the sense of absolute unease.”
Therapy helped him to “attempt to forgive what had happened to me”, he says. His voice turns warbly. “Well, Paul, you must forgive yourself as well, blah, blah, blah.”
“Therapy got me to a point where I had moved forward from where I was. But in a way, I was still struggling with the forgiveness,” he says. “I’d more or less forgiven. I’d, like, 99% forgiven. But you can’t 99% forgive. You’ve either forgiven or you haven’t.” Foot studied maths at university, which may partly explain the binary approach to a complex emotional and cognitive process.
— Read on www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/21/id-had-28-years-of-depression-now-it-was-gone-comic-paul-foot-on-three-seconds-that-changed-his-life
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