James Middleton is opening up about his depression.
The brother to Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, took to Instagram to reveal what exactly helped him in his time of need.
“I’ve been in that angst of loneliness, where you’re really alone in the universe,” Middleton, 31, captioned a selfie in the mountains with one of his dogs. “Luckily for me I had my dogs 🐾🐾.”
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Earlier this year, he opened up about his struggle with depression and his decision to seek help in a moving essay for The Daily Mail.
“During the day I’d drag myself up and go to work, then just stare with glazed eyes at my computer screen, willing the hours to tick by so I could drive home again,” he wrote for the publication. “Debilitating inertia gripped me. I couldn’t respond to the simplest message so I didn’t open my emails.”
After not being able to shake his feelings, and even contemplating suicide, he decided to seek treatment. “I packed my dogs into my car and, telling no one where I was going, drove to a wild part of the Lake District I’ve loved since I was a child,” he said.
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He added, “I recognize, too, the role my dogs — Ella, Inca, Luna, Zulu and Mabel — have played in my recovery.”
Read more from Middleton here.
