![]() ![]() Depression is overdetermined, to borrow Freud’s phrase, and its resolution is equally mysterious. I took out all the medication and threw it out the window.”Ī few years later the depression lifted, and, by Cohen’s report, it did not return. I pulled my car over to the side of the road. ![]() Despite releasing one of the most successful albums of his career, The Future, he found himself “really, really low, on many medications. Moving into some periods, which were debilitating, when I found it hard to get off the couch, to periods when I was fully operative, but the background noise of anguish still prevailed.”īy his mid-60s Cohen had been through several hospitalizations and tried tricyclics, MAOIs, second generation antidepressants, and anticonvulsants without success. The poet, novelist, and songwriter had “dealt with depression ever since my adolescence. ![]() The “cheerfulness” Cohen complained of was a wry euphemism for something darker. I’ve also studied deeply in the philosophies of the religions, but cheerfulness kept breaking through.” “I've taken a lot of Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Ritalin, Focalin. Leonard Cohen had a problem, and the medications weren’t solving it. ![]()
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