Stephen Fry has told how he turns to the music of Beethoven to battle depression. The comedian and actor, 62, has been open about his bipolar disorder diagnosis and has tried to take his own life multiple times, most recently in 2012.
Fry appeared on the Art of Change: Nothing Concrete podcast and told how his love of Beethoven eased his mental health problems.
He said: “There is a healing quality to listening to it that helps. When combined with not drinking too much and walking and eating properly and all the other things that supposedly help one’s mental health.” Fry added: “One of the ways I cope with it is to bathe myself in music like Beethoven’s and to think of people who have gone before me who have been lit by the flame of mania
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