Muriel Robin: "I can't live without antidepressants, but I'm fine"

Alexis Patri 2:00 p.m., October 30, 2021

INTERVIEW

"Success is an ointment, but it does not cure", explains Muriel Robin on Saturday on Europe 1. The actress and comedian is the guest of Isabelle Morizet's show, in the show 

. She talks about her hypersensitivity and the depression that she has been triggering for several decades, and the work she does to learn to be well, by doing with it, without looking for a cure in success. "When you put on an ointment, it gets better. But the sore is always underneath. And when it comes from early childhood, everyone can understand it well, the ointment that is the public is not enough", analyzes- she, adding that she would like to find a word "more beautiful and stronger" than that of ointment.

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"Public recognition is magnificent, it gives respite. It soothes, but it does not heal the background," she supports.

"The public has not replaced my family. You have to take care of it yourself. You have to get your hands dirty. I still find explanations today about the why of something deeply black at the bottom of Me. I'm talking about those things for people who can relate to that, who have early childhood wounds that go back to some time in their lives. "

Before the work on oneself, it is nevertheless in the work that Muriel Robin believed to be able to find solutions.

"I wanted to make movies because I wanted a family to hug me. It's very childish, it's very childish. I could have made any movie just to be told ' You, I want you. ”I didn't want to be known, I wanted to be recognized, especially in my sensitivity,” she explains.

"It didn't. So that's who I am. I walked forward on my own. It's written like that for me. I have that in common with Anne, my mate."

I find it weird that we can live normally with everything that is horrible on this planet "

"I'm not complaining, I'm fine. I'm much better than before," assures the actress who won an Emmy Award in 2007. "It's very clear with me: you read in me like in an open book. And besides, I always said everything. So we saw when I was well, when I was not well, when I was fat, when I was medium-fat, small-a-little-fat, much fat, short hair, long hair, etc. "

Despite the features of humor that even a modest distance from her sufferings, Muriel Robin seems to have made peace with her difficulties.

"I am depressed, I have always had that in me", she admits bluntly.

"I'm on antidepressants, I say that, and it will be my whole life. I can't live without antidepressants, but I feel normal. It's the others that I find weird. I find weird that you can live normally in banging all the horrible things on this planet. I tried to do without the antidepressants, but it doesn't work. It doesn't work anymore. "

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Because it is the hypersensitivity of humor that is, according to her, at the origin of her depression. A disease that she learned to tame, rather than fight it. In particular thanks to a doctor who, explaining to her that she would surely need antidepressants until the end of her days, asked her: "So, where is the problem?". A rhetorical question that appeased her.

"I do not know why I told myself that if I did not take it, it was because I was fine. There is no question of going well or not!", Assures Muriel Robin today.

"We are not going to change his sensitivity. And me, I will always be struck by the unbearable things in the world in the same way. Without antidepressants, I'm going into the wall, I no longer understand anything in the world, it's impossible. "