Bruce Springsteen talks about mental health by unveiling a new interview

"I felt like a very, very empty boat"

Bruce Springsteen explained his mental health issues in a revealing new interview.

Talk to Squire Springsteen talked about his first outage at the age of 32, in 1982 when "Nebraska" was released. Despite the fact that the shutdown trigger was still unknown, Springsteen said Squire that aging and childhood played a role.

"Everything I make knowing, as we get older, the weight of our unsorted luggage becomes heavier … much heavier … A long time ago, the defenses I built to withstand the stress of my childhood, to save what I had from themselves, have lost their utility and I have become an abuser of their once-saving powers.

"I mistakenly trusted them to isolate me, seal my alienation, cut off my life, control others, and contain my emotions to a detrimental degree. Now the bill collector [was] hit, and his payment [will] to be in tears. "

As a teenager, Springsteen said the discovery of music helped combat some of the early phases of his depression, due in part to a difficult relationship with his father, himself suffering from mental health problems.

"When I was a child and in adolescence … I felt like a very, very empty vessel. And it was not until I started filling it with music that I began to feel my personal power and impact on my friends and the little world I was in. I started to become aware of myself. But he came out of a place of real emptiness. "

He continued, "My mother was kind and compbadionate and very attentive to the feelings of others. She traveled the world with determination, but gently, slightly. All these things were the ones that corresponded to my mind. This was who I was. They came naturally to me. My father considered all these things as weaknesses. He was very dismissive mainly of who I was. And this launches you into a quest for a lifetime to solve this problem. "

Bruce Springsteen on Broadway – Credit: Press

Now, Springsteen said he knew better the warning signs of mental illness and could recognize them quickly. "I'm close enough to [mental illness] where I know I'm not completely good myself. I have had to deal with a lot of problems over the years and I am taking a variety of medications that allow me to stay stable. otherwise I can swing quite dramatically and … just … the wheels can come off a bit. So we have to look in our family. I have to watch my kids and I was lucky there. He ran in my family well before my father. "

Later in the interview, Springsteen also evokes suffering from "agitated depression" and difficulties from a close friend whom he described as "an elder son for me" who was suicide.

"He became very, very sick. So, finally, it's still a mystery – these last moments. I always say, "Someone was misplaced and just got caught in the rain. Another night, another way, someone else over there … it might not have happened. & # 39;

"They were sick and they found themselves caught in the rain … I do not know anyone who has ever satisfactorily explained the moments that led somebody to take this step. So, can I understand how it's going? Yes. I think I felt just hopeless enough: the pain gets too big, the confusion gets too big, and it's your fault. But I have no clear idea of ​​the situation and, in truth, I have never met anyone who knew him. "

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Meanwhile, the first trailer for the upcoming Netflix movie Springsteen at Broadway Concert movie is out recently.

The special was filmed during Springsteen's current tour of the Walter Kerr Theater in New York and will be available on the streaming platform from December 16, one day after the end of the Broadway show.

In the trailer, Springsteen shares anecdotes and anecdotes with the crowd, including how he met his band mate and wife Patti Scialfa in front of Stone Jersey's famous Stone Jersey, and his relationship with his Father. Later, he jokes: "Everyone has a relationship of love and hatred with his hometown. Take me, I'm Mr. 'Born To Run' … I'm currently living 10 minutes from my hometown. "