Sarah Silverman Opens Up About Depression, Comedy And Troublemaking

“Sarah Silverman is best-known for her comedy. But the new film I Smile Back is a drama, in which she plays a woman who suffers from profound depression.  It’s a subject with which the comedian is intimately familiar.  Silverman tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross that she first experienced depression as a young teen. “The depression I experienced [felt] like a chemical change,” she says. “It was like my perspective of the world changed about three degrees, and everything I saw was different.”

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Source: NPR Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross
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