Stephen Fry is always entertaining (to me anyway!) and usually gives interesting reflections on the absurdness of life. Mainly known as a television comedian in the UK, he can present as annoyingly clever and full of self confidence. Actor, comedian, writer (of plays, novels, newspaper column, poetry) - he even built his first website 10 years ago, his current site comes complete with blog and forum..
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My recent posts have highlighted the less than perfect starts of people who went on to great success in their chosen fields. Despite an affluent background, Stephen Fry described his teenage years as having a “tendency to lie, cheat and steal“. So much so that at 18 he was sent to prison for 3 months for credit card fraud!
He recovered from this setback to get to Cambridge University, where, apart from academic success, he started his long running comedy partnership with Hugh Laurie. They first appeared on stage together in 1980 at the Edinburgh Festival, along with future actress and Oscar winning writer Emma Thompson.
In recent years he has been very open about his bipolar mental illness (or manic depression), to which he attributes his wild mood swings. In 1995 he walked out of a play at the beginning of its West End (London) run and vanished. After many lurid front page headlines, he turned up in Belgium having contemplating suicide as a way out of his depression.
This is a very potted history of a very interesting, talented person. I include it simply to show that whatever talents or gifts Stephen may have been born with, going to prison when you’re 18 isn’t usually a precursor to a glittering career! And having met many people with bipolar mental illness over my years in psychiatry, those of us who aren’t prone to extremes of mood we have little control over have even less reason to feel sorry for ourselves.
Do you agree with Stephen? Is self pity a worse deadly sin such as envy? Do you find yourself prone to ruminating about your misfortunes and what is lacking in your life? As I have said before, apart from hacking off others, you will only feed your negative thoughts and perpetuate your lack of “whatever”.
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停止自责
斯蒂文.福莱总是很有趣(不管怎样对我来说)并且经常对荒缪的人生给出有趣的意见。他总是以恼人的聪明和充满自信的形象出现,在英国作为电视喜剧演员而著名。他是演员、喜剧演员、作家（在表演、小说、新闻报纸、诗歌领域）在十年前他甚至建立他的第一个网站。利用博客和公开讨论会，他的当前的网站接近完美。
我现在的职位很少强调相对于那些完全从头开始的人们在他们所选择的领域获得的成功.尽管有着富裕的背景,斯蒂文.福瑞描述他的青年时代有着说谎、欺骗和偷窃的趋向。很多此类的行为以至在他18岁时由于偷取信用卡而被送入监狱3个月。
在这次挫折后他振作起来并去了剑桥大学，在那儿，他开始了与休.劳瑞长期持续不断的喜剧合作关系，而放弃了学分上的成就。在1980年的爱丁堡节日他们第一次一起登台演出，还有未来的女演员和奥斯卡奖获得者作家艾玛.沃森。
最近的几年他已经坦然面对他的精神分裂症（又称狂躁性抑郁症）,对此他的态度是任由他的狂躁的情绪发展。1995年在西方的终端（伦敦）的开头出演然后失踪。在出现在许多的第一版的头条后，他出现在比利时把企图自杀作为他的抑郁症的一种出路。
这是关于一个有趣的，多才多艺的人的既定的历史。我对此总结是它简单的表明了不管斯蒂文.福莱生来多么有才能和天赋，将要进入监狱在你的18岁这不是一个通往闪光职业的先驱。我已经遇到很多在心理上有精神分裂症的人，我们中的这些没有情绪极端倾向的人，我们很少掌握甚至是很少的原因来自责。
你是否承认斯缔文？是否遗憾是一种更糟糕的罪恶就像嫉妒？你是否发现自己倾向于反思关于自己的坏运气和在你的生命中缺少的东西？就像我以前所说的，远离他人，你将只有满足自己的消极的想法和你永久缺少的东西