Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness

The Marginalian reports on Bruce Springsteen's candid discussion of depression, drawn from his memoir and a BBC interview. He describes it as a powerful, often unexplainable force, and offers a strategy of naming the feeling without misattributing it to a specific cause. Acknowledging it and relaxing with it, he says, can often shorten its duration. The piece also notes his father's long, drawn-out depressions.

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