Jim Carrey on Depression: "Your body needs deep rest."
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the one thing I like people talk about depression all the time the difference between depression and sadness is sadness is just you know from happen stance whatever happened or didn't happen for you and depression is your body saying [ __ ] you I don't want to be this character anymore I don't want to hold up this this Avatar that you've created in the world it's too much for me so a friend of mine who's a spiritual teacher has a really good take his name is Jeff Foster and his take on it is that they should
change you know you should think of the word as of dep as sorry of depressed as deep rest deep rest your body needs to be depressed it needs deep rest from the character that you've been trying to play