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• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

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  Swimming, Feet, Bricks

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• Depression is something that has always figured in my life but now I'm dealing with it. I wish I'd done this years ago because it's been really helpful.

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  Years, Wish, Done

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• If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.

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  Role Models, Comedian, Roles

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• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

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  Depressing, Effects

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• I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

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  Long, Function, Wells

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• My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

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  Character, What If, Spleen

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• One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

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  Years, Firsts, Six

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• I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

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  Groups, Gang, Clique

  "I'm not an interesting celebrity. I don't snort cocaine or wear women's underwear" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2007.

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• I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

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  Reading, Light, Torches

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• Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

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  Excited, Wells

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