javi martin has published the book Bipolar and a lot of honor in which he tells how his life and his illness are. But before he was diagnosed, he knew “nothing.” “Surely I also made jokes without knowing what it meant. I did have people around me, I knew they had gone to the psychologist, but they didn’t tell you why either. I didn’t know anything about mental disorders ”, he recounted in RNE afternoons.
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The actor who became popular in the 90s hosting the TV show Whoever that fails next to Greater Wyoming He has explained that for him “there are no red lines” in humor. He defines it as “an escape valve” and “many times it is a way to heal yourself from what has happened to you.”
“I believe that we can make humor out of absolutely everything. It is true that we will have to see in what contexts, with what people. In my book I talk with a lot of humor about everything that has happened to me: especially about the highs, about those manic phases and it is true that the depressive phase is told in a different way. Of course, that suicide attempt isn’t very funny to me. I think it’s a way of taking out a lot of things that hurt us sometimes and with humor they can be expressed very well”.
the first warning
I was at a family party on December 24 “with friends before family dinner and I just started to feel bad” and thought “I’m dying, I’m dying.” She started crying in the middle of the party. “The truth is that not many people noticed, someone looked at me like ‘Is something wrong?’ Suddenly I opened my eyes and felt that I had passed to another plane of reality.
“The manic phase is a very curious thing because many people with this disorder experience it and it is very special, it is wonderful. When you are inside you have a lot of energy, you feel the colors, the shapes, the smells, the music, you feel it in a very special way and then it gives you a lot of spirituality”.
“You have extrasensory connections, you can talk to spirits, you talk to plants, to animals. All this you truly feel. Sometimes it’s hard to treat us because it’s so wonderful that you don’t want to come down from it. I talked about it with my psychologist and told her that I want to go back to the little lights, because when I came back, life was a bit gray for me. I wanted to go back to that”.
“absolutely normal”
“All mental disorders have a lot stigma and we live in a world where it seems like you always have to be happy, all cool, I’m doing great, my vacations, my photos of the beach. We are not used to the fact that it is absolutely normal that at some point in your life you go through a bad stage. i think we should destigmatize it, play it down”.
be transparent
If you want to have a relationship with a person, Javi Martín believes that “you have to go with the cards on the table”. He has explained that he has had a partner “for many years, but if he had a new partner he would have to tell them.”
“I had ups and downs. What needs to be told is the story that comes later with treatment, with medication, with therapy and psychiatrists, you can lead a completely stable life”. He has given as an example two of his friends who “are delighted with life and happy. I continue with my life so normalmy work, my friends”.
“The only thing I have to do is take care of my hours of sleep, do not take any type of drug and I’m doing great. I have not had depression for many years and I have a slight rise once a year, two weeks, which is controlled immediately with the medication,” the actor revealed.
Javi Martín: “We can make humor out of absolutely everything”