Pete Davidson's mental health battle

Pete Davidson's mental health journey is very raw and very public — but through comedy, he's helped de-stigmatize mental health issues.

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00:00I love being mentally ill. I'm so relieved, you know, that everybody knows that now I don't have to hide anything

00:16It's amazing if I'm out if I'm like out

00:20Somewhere and I'm like acting like a dick. Everyone's like, oh, no. No, he's like mentally ill

00:25You know and if I'm happy they're like, oh good for him

00:27I

00:29Was recently diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder

00:34Form of depression and there's no like cure per se. I found that I had a mental disorder

00:40I thought I had a drug problem. Yeah, it's it's a completely different thing

00:43Yeah

00:55Do any of them track it to the loss of your dad, yeah, I mean that's the big that's the big one

01:00My big thing is trust. It's like, you know one day he was here and then the next day, you know, they're gone

01:06We'll do some 9-eleven jokes and we'll get the fuck out of here. How's that sound?

01:10So the talk therapy is helping it's all about like getting out of that and using your tools

01:15Sounds lame and annoying but like when you do it, it actually kind of works