{"id":30874,"date":"2024-11-18T21:02:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T21:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/pete-townshend-opens-up-about-his-depression-says-he-cures-it-with-cookies-and-tea\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T21:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T21:02:34","slug":"pete-townshend-opens-up-about-his-depression-says-he-cures-it-with-cookies-and-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/pete-townshend-opens-up-about-his-depression-says-he-cures-it-with-cookies-and-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Townshend opens up about his depression, says he cures it with cookies and tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-18\/Getty_PeteTownshend_111824.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Katja Ogrin\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Pete Townshend<\/strong> is opening up about his personal battles with what he describes as \u201cchemical depression\u201d and\u00a0the unconventional way he deals with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In an interview with the U.K. paper <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/arts\/article\/pete-townshend-i-tackle-my-depression-with-tea-and-biscuits-3t86l6f0v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Times<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, <strong>The Who<\/strong> legend shares that he stopped going to counseling after three years, noting, \u201cI realized that the woman counseling me had only said about three words. I was just listening to myself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Instead, he says he writes in his journals and \u201cevery morning I rebuild myself in a sense with tea and coffee, and a few vitamin pills.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhen I first wake up I\u2019m suicidal, actually suicidal,\u201d he says, sharing that on a typical morning it takes him about 30 minutes to escape the darkness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI have a couple of cups of tea, two digestive biscuits (cookies)\u2014apparently equal to 17 sugar lumps\u2014and I feel happy,\u201d he said. \u201cIf I start my journals before I have my cup of tea, I\u2019ll paint a very bleak picture of my life. Despite the fact that I have everything that I want and everything that I need. \u2026 And I have had a really extraordinary life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katja Ogrin\/Redferns Pete Townshend is opening up about his personal battles with what he describes as \u201cchemical depression\u201d and\u00a0the unconventional way he deals with it. In an interview with the U.K. paper The Times, The Who legend shares that he stopped going to counseling after three years, noting, \u201cI realized<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/pete-townshend-opens-up-about-his-depression-says-he-cures-it-with-cookies-and-tea\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}