Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien on Depression, Trauma & Finding Light Again

This underlying depression had been going on for years. It just seems so bleak, and it seems how do I get out of there? Depressions, breakdowns, illnesses. The buddy's saying there's something not right here. Ed O'Brien of Radiohead. One of the architects of modern rock and rock and roll hall of fame inductee. Has a solo record called Blue Morpho. The idea that the guy from Radiohead is gonna complain about not being happy, you know, nobody wants to hear that. No. And it was exactly that. It felt very intelligent. I'm not like that. I'm a rock, I'm a bad but my body was just saying enough. I felt like I was carrying a weight every day that was weighing me down. It was very, very, very physical.

I cared so much before what people thought of me from the healing process is a process of self-love and going I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm no longer hiding. You have to ask well, why was I hiding?

Well I was hiding because It's like perfect timing that I'm sitting with you today to have this conversation. There are no coincidences, right? Just synchronicity, yeah. In your case, like I'm curious. of the ways in which

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