Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor is opening up about his battle with manic depression.
In a new interview, Taylor shared more insight into what it’s like to live with manic depression, and the stigma around speaking out about it.
He explained, “So when I first started kind of opening it up about it, the response was quite extraordinary — people just were, like, ‘You gave me the courage to kind of open up about it on my own and really kind of talk to the people who I care about, about what was affecting me. That, in a weird way, helped me with the communication with my loved ones, because I felt like I was being very open about it in the press, but then I wasn’t able to expound about it with the people who it was actually affecting.”
He went on to say, “I think the biggest thing that people don’t understand is the numbness that comes with it, especially when the physical side of it hits you and it becomes that slog, that almost impossible slog to just be alive or to be human. It’s something that you just can’t describe to people unless they’ve been in it. I call it trying to run underwater. So I think that’s the biggest thing that really is the hardest, to really get people to understand and to empathize.”
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