- I have suffered from depression since I was a child – kjendis.no

In a new interview with the fashion magazine Elle tells actor Ryan Phillippe (40) that he has fought a lifelong battle with her mental health.

This has been difficult to handle for him both personally and professionally.

– Depression has been a major obstacle for me ever since I was a child. As one gets older so I think it decreases slightly, but being sad is innate in me, he tells the website, adding:

– The disorder may be valuable too, but while it can ruin your whole life. But having said that, if the choice was between being as I am, or a complete idiot without emotion, so I’d rather suffer through sadness.

– Looks the same with my daughter

There which intersects most of the actor’s heart is to see that her daughter Ava (14), as he has from the marriage to Reese Witherspoon (38), has inherited his genes.

– I am empathic and donning my feelings of others and feel with them. I see the same thing with my daughter. She inherited it, and I could everything in the world wish that she did not.

– Some people have only one kind of overshadowing sadness over them, or they are so analytical that they removes the fun of stuff because they think too much.

Have a dark humor

Still refuses Phillippe to let the disorder take complete prevailed over their life.

– I’m much funnier than people think. But I have a dark sense of humor. A kind of gallows humor. I think that if you are wearing any kind of sadness or depression, then your sense of humor tends to be slightly darker than most others.

Phillippe and Witherspoon also son Deacon (11) together, and in addition he has daughter Kailani (3) with ex-girlfriend Alexis Knapp (25).

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