{"id":232515,"date":"2025-10-22T18:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/232515\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:27:06","slug":"nothing-was-known-about-it-and-so-everybody-just-suffered-through-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/232515\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing was known about it and so everybody just suffered through it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruce Springsteen<\/a> has said \u201cnothing was known\u201d about mental health in the \u201850s and \u201860s, so \u201ceverybody just suffered through it\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Boss has been speaking about his personal life in anticipation of the release of Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere<\/a>, a biopic that explores the period of conflict and personal struggle that Springsteen experienced as he wrote and recorded his acclaimed 1982 album \u2018Nebraska\u2019.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the film\u2019s release in cinemas on Friday (October 24), Springsteen appeared on BBC Radio 2\u2019s Breakfast Show<\/a> with Scott Mills, where he was asked how comfortable he felt speaking openly about his mental health struggles.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in the \u201850s and \u201860s you know \u2013 I was one to 10 in the \u201850s and my parents left for California when I was 18 or 19, so that was the extent of which I knew my dad and those were his very troubled years,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd like I said, the mental illness ran through my families.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI had aunts very, very ill. I had cousins who were very ill. And I just got used to it as being, that was my family, and these were the people that I loved. But no one got any help whatsoever. You know, there was no medication, there was no interactions with any psychological help and people were really simply left on their own. You know it was just there \u2013 nothing was known about it and so everybody just suffered through it.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked about the help that he personally sought out for his mental health during the period depicted in the film, Springsteen said: \u201cYeah I was very lucky you know and Jeremy really captures sort of my deterioration at that time when I had my first breakdown really is what it was. And though I didn\u2019t know what was going on, I was lucky enough at that point to have a relationship with Mr. Landau, John Landau, and he\u2019s had experience in this area and got me to some folks that really were able to help me out at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cAnd I was totally embarrassed. And for years, I would almost disguise myself before going into the psychiatrist\u2019s office. I had my baseball hat on and my glasses and I\u2019m looking around and I\u2019m sneaking in as fast as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust because, you know, I was grown up to believe that it was embarrassing to ask for that kind of help and need that kind of help. And it took me years to get used to just feeling fine and confident about walking into the office. It was so forbidden in the world that I grew up in that it took me a long time to get used to it, and now it has been a big part of\u2026half of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Bear<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Jeremy Allen White<\/a>\u00a0plays Springsteen\u00a0in the new film, and NME have awarded it four stars<\/a>, writing: \u201cThose 10 tracks on \u2018Nebraska\u2019 become a lifeline for Springsteen, described as \u2018the only thing I can still believe in\u2019 at a point where his inner world was imploding. What Deliver Me From Nowhere\u00a0shows well is just how commercial success was a distant second to Springsteen \u2013 a man who had no choice but to rip those\u00a0Nebraska\u00a0songs from his wounded heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Springsteen recently revealed why he gave\u00a0Deliver Me From Nowhere\u00a0the go-ahead<\/a>, despite\u00a0it charting a \u201cdifficult\u201d time in his life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, it\u2019s really not a biopic,\u201d he said. \u201cIt just takes a couple years out of my life when I was 31 and 32, and looks at them really at a time when I made this particular record, and when I went through some just difficult places in my life, you know. And, I\u2019m old and I don\u2019t give a fuck what I do now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allen White performs a slew of Springsteen songs in the film<\/a>, alongside the likes of Rival Sons<\/a>\u2018 Jay Buchanan, Aksel Coe, Bobby Emmett, and\u00a0Greta Van Fleet<\/a>\u2019s Jake and Sam F. Kiszka. They will be compiled onto a soundtrack album that will come out on December 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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