Anderson Cooper: depression?

He's seemed depressed to me for a long time now. Hope he gets treatment.

:( this makes me genuinely sad. he seemed really shaken up today.

He's like Carter and also haunted by him.

Depression and suicide are equal opportunity cunts, stealing the lives of the rich and the poor: high net worth celebrities, victims of mass shootings, and those who've gone bankrupt due to medical bills or job loss.

I'm glad Anderson is talking about since there's still such a huge stigma surrounding mental illness in the US.

r4 much less so than in the rest of the world

R5

Agreed

As much as some don't like Pete Davidson, he certainly has made speaking about mental illness more commonplace.

This suicide cluster is reminding me of last year...

R7

Anderson has been talking about it for a long time.

Anderson wrote about his brother's suicide in his first book, I think. Or maybe I read it online. It was very moving. And you could tell he had been struggling with it ever since. Along with his dad's death.

He said something about closure being a made-up word

R9, true, but Pete is talking as a person who has mental illness rather than commenting on others who have it.

R11

I get what you mean.

me too

He's on drugs.

His brother Carter's death was completely mysterious--he left no note, and neither he nor his mother had any idea that Carter was in very bad shape emotionally. So it may not be that HE is depressed, but that he's haunted by the idea of other people's depression.

Prince William is not someone who suffers from depression, but of course his mother did and his brother does. He has become very interested in mental illness as a result.

He stammers and says “you know” too much.

Fuck him

Don't care.

As someone who 's only sibling, a brother committed suicide without leaving a note, it is just something you never get over. I wasn't even that close to my brother and it happened over 30 years ago but you just never forget it and news of other suicides brings it all right back like it was yesterday.

That’s sad. Hope he is seeking proper treatment for it if he is suffers from depression.

Considering he has no talent, is now and always has been at the bottom of the ratings and he used his mommy to get him into CNN, you think he'd be happy.

Most journalists are depressed or on the edge of depression because even if you make sure you don't read the details of every story you still see the headlines day in and out of every kind of misery possible. It really takes a toll. There are studies that show that just watching the news every day makes people more anxious and fearful which is a small dose compared to how many news stories journalists consume in a day.

is he seeing anyone?

As the former host of The Mole., Anderson is aware that people who are not Gloria Vanderbilt's child would never have been given the opportunity he was handed.

who is this troll who is all up in this post? anderson did not use Gloria to become a journalist, he earned his credentials as a war correspondent reporting on the Rwandan genocide and Sarajevo, among other places. Not glamorous, very difficult. Then he struggled for years before getting a CNN job, from which he got fired btw. It was his Katrina reporting that made him a star because he was first on the ground. I don't see how Gloria could have helped him do any of that.

He is not a Ronan Farrow who was handed his own MSNBC show at 23, nor even a Tapper whose uncle got him his first job. He has worked harder than most anchors to get where he is and he succeeded because people were very taken with him. I had no idea who his mom was when he first became famous. None of my friends did. But everyone was OBSESSED with him at one point.

R24

If Gloria could so easily get him the CNN job, why did he have to host the mole at all? why did he host a 3 am show on ABC news? Why did he struggle on Channel One news for so many years?

none of you trolls ever have an answer for this. As if anyone cares about who gloria's children are. she had 4 sons. Anderson supports her financially.

A few things:

1. Carter killed himself in front of Gloria and he had been struggling for a while. Anderson talks about it in his first book. He was behaving erratically and there had been an "incident" at one of anderson's college events. 2. Anderson said he became a war correspondent because he could not cope with Carter's death and needed to be around people who were familiar with loss 3. He has talked about how seeing bodies piled up in ditches during the genocide made him numb and he had to leave 4. He lost his dad when he was ten and he was his real "parent". Aparently Gloria became an alcoholic. Anderson said losing his dad changed him forever.

Anderson did say on New Year's Eve that he wants to try and work on being content.

He has seemed glum. He did break up with a long term boyfriend a while ago and I also get the feeling he doesn't like doing CNN's constant Trump attacking. I think he sees himself as more of the old school balanced non-partisan news anchor.

Dial down the rage, Nastiness at r25.

*sorry, I meant r26, not r25.

R29

eh, the people who keep saying "Gloria got Anderson his CNN job" are kinda annoying. If it it were that easy to become the face of a cable news network.

he is probably tired of dealing with Trump supporters and Kathy Griffin fans. I just peeked at his twitter mentions, and good LORD, people have issues.

me too, coop

He's lost a long term Euro boyfriend, has a mother who's 94, and is saddled with a house in a foreign shithole run by a Trump wannabe.

Has anyone seen his conference/standup touring show?

R35

solo or with Cohen? I have seen the solo one

Guessing it would be the solo one that he’s doing right now, no mention of Andy on the Ticketmaster website.

his solo show is excellent. He is a very engaging speaker, and surprisingly funny. Very funny. I think he likes to play the straight man when he is paired with a comedian, but he shouldn't.

It's not political, though. He talks about his own journey and philosophy, the stories that moved him the most, and his personal tragedies.

Maybe he needs to be a Daddy:

Gorgeous without makeup:

Thx R38

Big Bird is on it

Anderson used to have a Benjamin too R39

Isn't it kind of cruel of Andy Cohen to name his baby Benjamin too? Because he knew Ben M. also for years???

Ben still lives with Anderson, I think

No one can say for sure what Anderson would be doing if he hadn't had an extraordinary amount of privilege.

I'm tired of people talking about privilege. The vast majority of people benefit from some type of privilege.

[quote]The vast majority of people benefit from some type of privilege.

Some exceedingly more than others (for example, people related to a Vanderbilt).

R39 Seriously. Maybe he should seriously consider it. Fatherhood is something very meaningful to put his energy into. Carry on his Father's legacy and loving parenting that he feels such a strong connection to.

Has Anderson ever expressed interest in fatherhood? Has Andy's recent foray into fatherhood inspired him?

Depression is often comorbid with Asperger's.

R50 I thought he had once said some people shouldn’t be/would be bad parents and he was one of them.

R50

He said he had always wanted kids because he thought he was like his dad who was a great father. But he has started to suspect he is more like his mom and "some people weren't meant to be parents." He adores his niece and nephews though.

I think Anderson and I should move into the third floor of the Breakers for a long summer of reading books, cocktails, and a daily routine of very skillful body work by an expert staff who bunk in the Orangerie.

R54

lol, anderson has no staff.

But we could hire one. Just a long quiet break. Spy on the tourists, maybe invite some hot twinks visiting the mansion with grandma's ladies excursion, up for a cocktail.

I am in

The Vanderbilts quit their apartment in the Breakers!

I blame those Soylent milkshakes.