{"id":48238,"date":"2018-04-25T12:43:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T19:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=48238"},"modified":"2018-04-25T12:43:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T19:43:32","slug":"wheaton-what-the-right-medicine-has-done-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2018\/04\/wheaton-what-the-right-medicine-has-done-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheaton: What The Right Medicine Has Done For Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an interview with The Star<\/em>, Wil Wheaton<\/strong> spoke about what it was like to deal with depression and anxiety; how he coped with them; and how medicine has made a big difference in his life.<\/p>\n

Although suffering with depression and anxiety for years, Wheaton was only formally diagnosed two years ago. This came after trying to figure out travel issues at an airport triggered a panic attack. His wife took care of those issues, but told Wheaton that he needed to talk to someone about the depression and anxiety.<\/p>\n

Wheaton explained what it was like to live with mental illness and how being properly medicated changed things for him. “I realized I had been living my whole life inside a really loud, dark room,” he said. “Seeing a doctor and taking medication allowed me to see the exits from that room, and being treated allowed me to walk through that door and get out of that loud room.<\/p>\n

“After I started treatment, my wife and I were just having a walk in the neighborhood, and I realized that it was a really beautiful day. And it was warm. And there was this wonderful little bit of a breeze. And birds sounded really beautiful. And flowers smelled really great. And my wife’s hand felt really good in my hand. And we\u2019re walking and I just started to cry, and she was like, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘I just realized that I don’t feel bad. I just realized I’m not existing; I’m living.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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