Slipknot’s Corey Taylor says “people don’t understand the numbness that comes with” suffering from manic depression

nme.com:

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has opened up about his battle with manic depression, and said that people struggle to comprehend the feeling of “numbness” that comes with it.Taylor – who is also the frontman of Stone Sour and has a solo career – has been open about his struggle with mental health before, touching upon the themes in his music, launching The Taylor Foundation, and telling NME about his battle with PTSD.Now, in a recently released interview with The Void With Christina, the vocalist has shared more insight into what it’s like to live with manic depression, and the stigma around speaking out about it.“It’s interesting.

I’ve always been very outspoken about everything [so] I never realised that it was such a stigma, to be honest,” he said. “It was a line that you really didn’t cross or you didn’t admit to, especially somebody in my profession or whatever… people kind of used it as a buzzword.

They never really talked about it eloquently or very openly.“So when I first started kind of opening it up about it, the response was quite extraordinary — people just were, like, ‘You gave me the courage to kind of open up about it on my own and really kind of talk to the people who I care about, about what was affecting me,’” he added.“That, in a weird way, helped me with the communication with my loved ones, because I felt like I was being very open about it in the press, but then I wasn’t able to expound about it with the people who it was actually affecting.”He continued, recalling the hardest part of dealing with mental health issues: “I think the biggest thing that people don’t understand is the numbness that comes with it, especially when the physical side of it hits you and it becomes that slog, that almost.