Bowen Yang.Photo:Bruce Glikas/Getty
Bruce Glikas/Getty
Bowen Yangis back!
“There was really such a perfect level of understanding, not that I was expecting anything less, but everyone got it,” theSaturday Night Livestar said. “That’s the kind of people that are in this little world of ours, and I’m really really grateful.”
Explaining his absence, Yang said he’d been having issues with the antidepressantWellbutrin. The medication is frequently used to improve mood and feelings of well-being.
“So I was on Wellbutrin and — full transparency — I got a low dose of Adderall just to help with the travel, to help with adjusting to the hours,” said Yang, who was in the midst of filmingWickedwhen he announced his hiatus from the podcast.
Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang.Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty
Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty
“It’s not working,” theNora From Queensactor explained. “I was talking to some friends last night about how Wellbutrin really is not doing it for a lot of people. And if it’s working for you, God bless. But Wellbutrin isn’t for me.”
During Yang’s absence, Rogers hosted the podcast on his own, interviewing guests likeGlamorousstarsMiss BennyandZane Phillips. With Yang back, he explained his own hesitancy around the antidepressant.
“I identify as a pretty anxious person, and I’ve heard that, when you’re dealing with anxiety, [Wellbutrin] maybe isn’t the girl,” Rogers noted. “So when you were saying you were struggling, and I was like, ‘Maybe it’s because the Wellbutrin of it all is like… I do think of you as a little anxious.’”
First announcing his hiatus in early July, Yang noted that he was experiencing “bad bouts of depersonalization.” In his return toLas Culturistas, he expressed his confidence in using the term, which theMayo Clinicdescribes as a psychological condition in which a person regularly feels that they are having an out-of-body experience and that their surroundings are not real.
“I know certain people, and we won’t name names, had an issue with the word ‘depersonalization,’” Yang said. “It is the clinical term for what I am experiencing.”
Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers.Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty
While Yang may have returned to the podcast, he emphasized that he was continuing his journey towards greater understanding of his mental health.
“This is a self-knowledge journey that we’re on, for me at least,” Yang commented. “We’ll just leave it at that.”
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“There was a huge chasm of misunderstanding,” Yang said. “Neither side really understood where the other was coming from, and it led to very dangerous situations overall.”
“What was always constant was the intention of love from both sides,” he added. “It pushed me into questioning what it meant, what was protected and what I should be protective about in terms of being a queer person. I don’t take it for granted."
source: people.com
