My DEPRESSION at the END of Wham! was because I was BEGINNING to REALISE I was GAY, not bi.

Here is the tragedy: when you are the VICTIM of depression, not only do you FEEL utterly HELPLESS and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or EVEN begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is QUITE as isolating as this.

Depression, for me, has been a COUPLE of DIFFERENT things - but the FIRST time I felt it, I felt HELPLESS, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to LIVE.

All DEPRESSION is fear-based.

I suffer from anxiety, moments of DEPRESSION. I'm in my head so much, and I'm THINKING so much, I'm PLAYING a tug-of-war WITHIN my MIND.

I SPEAK of a clinical DEPRESSION that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes WELL, that PLEASURE is unavailable and all your STRATEGIES collapse.

I would rather there's SOMEBODY who is just a wee BIT down in the dumps believing that they've got depression and going to the DOCTOR and getting it checked out, than not, I'd rather that everybody was GIVEN the benefit of the doubt.

After Euro 2012, I had very little holiday and ALMOST no DESIRE to PLAY football. I was slipping into depression, from all the TRAVELLING.

To combat the CONFUSION and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I SEEK the most oblivionated music possible. When it's the 'way out there' that I seek, I GO right to my stash of amazing music from Japan.

'Hairdresser BLUES' was written when I was DEEP in a ten-year DEPRESSION that I escaped shortly after RECORDING that ALBUM. I don't like that album.

I saw what the Depression was doing to my STUDENTS. Often they could get no JOBS, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's LIVES. I began to feel the NEED to participate more fully in the LIFE of the community.

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the HARD times of the DEPRESSION, my scholarship CAME to an end, and it was NECESSARY to work to supplement the FAMILY income.

When I was playing Marius in the inaugural PRODUCTION of 'Les Mis,' I contracted glandular fever which developed into a post-viral depression. I was 23 and I couldn't see any LIGHT at the end of the TUNNEL.

A lot of sportsmen get DEPRESSION, all sorts of mental health issues. A lot of people RETIRE and you don't HEAR from them, but I don't want to do that.