Ellen DeGeneres, Jimmy Fallon And Graham Norton Saved My Life.
One Of The Reasons I Survived My Depression.
Yup. That's true.
Ellen DeGeneres, Jimmy Fallon and Graham Norton saved my life.
This was back in 2014, and I was in my second year of college.
My home was a bunch of heartbroken people who survived one day at a time. My grandmother was bedridden, cranky and disillusioned. My mother was trying her best to take care of her while also taking care of the whole family. My brother was lost figuring out what was going on with his life, and my sister-in-law was distant. I was trying my best to help my mother with her errands while attending college. We never spoke to each other other than to discuss what was going wrong in the house.
The college was another painful experience for me. The education system was (and still is) crap, and it was failing me. I had a couple of friends who abandoned me for a silly reason. And I wasn't hip enough for my other classmates. So now I was friendless as well.
I remember waking up and crying that I had to go to college to get a degree that had lost its charm and be around people who never cared about me. I somehow would manage that and rush back home, only to be greeted by the feeling of hopelessness, despair and tiredness permeating through every thing and every being in the house.
I had no joy at home or college, nothing to look forward to. Add to that my childhood trauma, and I had the recipe for depression.
It was during this time I found out about YouTube and through it about Ellen DeGeneres, Jimmy Fallon and Graham Norton.
I would spend my afternoons until dinner and bedtime watching videos of these three interviewing celebrities and making me laugh.
Once entering adulthood, I had forgotten to laugh. During these hours, I binged-watched these three hosts being silly with their guests that I would laugh my pain, my heartbreak away. Their videos were the only human interaction I had, which gave me some happiness. Enough happiness to help me stay around a day longer until I watched their videos again the next day.
So, yes, Ellen DeGeneres, Jimmy Fallon and Graham Norton helped me crawl out of my depression cave and saved my life.
Thank you, Ellen DeGeneres.
Thank you, Jimmy Fallon.
Thank you, Graham Norton.
