Trevor Noah: My Depression Was Linked To ADHD! Why I Left The Daily Show!

Felt like Life was meaningless. I would think to myself I hate this. This sucks. I don't know w what I want to do with life anymore. And that's sometimes where the depression would kick in.

But I didn't realize that the depression that I was suffering from was untreated ADHD depression. And so I've learned rules now for myself. And for anyone out there if you are suffering from this. Ask yourself a few simple questions. Mr. Trevor Noah, the former host of The Daily Show. He gained a massive following for his humorous yet incisive take on politics and society. I was born to a black mother and a white father in South Africa. At a time when it was illegal in the country. They were scar the police were gonna take me away, and then my mother my stepfather. And it became an unsafe household. Your mother had been shot point blank in the head. By this man. And from that day onwards, everything changes. You arrive in America to pursue your dream as being a comedian. You were very hard working to say the least. Which led to you being the host of the Daily Show. But it didn't go so well at first. It was absolutely terrible. People would just be like, Go back to where you came from, death threat.

It was really hard, but I persevered. And I would get home at nine PM, work until midnight, get back to the office at seven the next day and do it all over again. And then the daily show went into become a smash hit, but the cost of it. I had made my life about work and I had made everything else secondary. And to be honest with you, a lot of people are doing this. We've neglected connection. And I think we're experiencing a generation of men in particular who are not just isolated but not practiced in the art of connecting. And it's affecting society now. So those men that are struggling, where do they need to start? This is a lesson that I've learned if you're struggling with this. So you

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