“It was good while I was in the Beatles, I was useful, and I could play bass for their songs, I could write songs for them to sing and for me to sing, and we could make records of them. But the minute I wasn’t with the Beatles anymore, it became really very difficult.”
Back in the height of what became known as Beatlemania, the band tended to “make fun” of anything to do with mental health rather than take it seriously, but now at the age of 79, McCartney has a good sense of what was actually going on behind the scenes and how he was able to get himself out of his depression.
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He added: “I think that was what I was able to do, to get out of the depression by saying, ‘OK, this is really bad and I’ve got to do something about it.’ So I did.
“And I think that’s my way, almost by being my own psychiatrist. You say, ‘This is not cool. You’re not as bad as you think you are,’ and all of the things. So you start to think, ‘OK’.”
Source: Daily Express
