Brad Pitt Says He Spent Years With 'Low-Grade Depression'

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Brad Pitt is embracing life. The 58-year-old actor opens up in a new interview with about everything from recently quitting cigarettes, to discovering things about himself throughout the years, including that he feels he «spent years with a low-grade depression.»“I always felt very alone in my life,” Pitt shares. “Alone growing up as a kid, alone even out here [in Los Angeles], and it’s really not till recently that I have had a greater embrace of my friends and family.

What’s that line, it was either Rilke or Einstein, believe it or not, but it was something about when you can walk with the paradox, when you carry real pain and real joy simultaneously, this is maturity, this is growth.«Pitt goes on to describe some things that bring him joy — and how those feelings of happiness didn't come until more recently.»Music fills me with so much joy," he says. «I think joy’s been a newer discovery, later in life.

I was always moving with the currents, drifting in a way, and onto the next. I think I spent years with a low-grade depression, and it’s not until coming to terms with that, trying to embrace all sides of self—the beauty and the ugly—that I’ve been able to catch those moments of joy.»Earlier in the interview, Pitt also explains that it took him time to find out who he really is. «Out here in California, there’s a lot of talk about ‘being your authentic self,'» he tells the magazine. «It would plague me, what does ‘authentic’ mean? [For me] it was getting to a place of acknowledging those deep scars that we carry.»With all this self-discovery, Pitt is focused on making the next chapter of his life a meaningful one.