{"id":387,"date":"2025-07-21T05:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/id-had-28-years-of-depression-now-it-was-gone-comic-paul-foot-on-three-seconds-that-changed-his-life-comedy-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T05:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:12:05","slug":"id-had-28-years-of-depression-now-it-was-gone-comic-paul-foot-on-three-seconds-that-changed-his-life-comedy-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/id-had-28-years-of-depression-now-it-was-gone-comic-paul-foot-on-three-seconds-that-changed-his-life-comedy-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019d had 28 years of depression \u2013 now it was gone\u2019: Comic Paul Foot on three seconds that changed his life | Comedy | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cSomething happens to you when you\u2019re a child and it doesn\u2019t really register. You go through adolescence, and you don\u2019t remember it. Then, at about 19, a massive depression kicks in. This huge depression in the sense of absolute unease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Therapy helped him to \u201cattempt to forgive what had happened to me\u201d, he says. His voice turns warbly. \u201cWell, Paul, you must forgive yourself as well, blah, blah, blah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherapy 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,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019d more or less forgiven. I\u2019d, like, 99% forgiven. But you can\u2019t 99% forgive. You\u2019ve either forgiven or you haven\u2019t.\u201d Foot studied maths at university, which may partly explain the binary approach to a complex emotional and cognitive process.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/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\">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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSomething happens to you when you\u2019re a child and it doesn\u2019t really register. You go through adolescence, and you don\u2019t remember it. Then, at about 19, a massive depression kicks in. This huge depression in the sense of absolute unease.\u201d Therapy helped him to \u201cattempt to forgive what had happened to me\u201d, he says. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}