“When I wake up, I have suicidal thoughts, for real,” Pete Townshend revealed in a new interview with the Sunday Timesexplaining how he often finds himself waking up between 2 and 5 in the morning.
To combat this depression, the musician and founder of the Who developed his own morning routine: “I make myself a couple of cups of tea, two digestive biscuits – for the equivalent of 17 sugar cubes – and I feel happy.” She continues: “If I write in my diaries before tea, I tend to report a bleak outlook on my life, despite having everything I want and desire, and despite having had an extraordinary life.”
Townnshend later said that, despite struggling with crippling “chemical depression,” he would rather write in a journal than pay a therapist. «After three years of therapy I realized that the woman who was following me had only said three words to me. I was listening to myself. So now I keep diaries.”
Another statement was also on the topic: «I think that, mainly because of social media, we are a bit superficial in the way we lightly share not only our anxieties but also, perhaps, our solutions», concluding: «This that works for me won't necessarily work for you.”
