Ruby Wax on BBC HardTalk 2013 

Ruby is a caring person and her change from comedic entertainer to teaching about Mental Illness is inspiring and yes still funny at times. Her personal challenges then education at Oxford gives her a truly genuine platform to speak about what she knows for fact. Thank you, Ruby.

Ruby Wax....you are really inspiring.....

You are doing wonderful work Ruby . You are a comfort and inspiration to us .

Ruby Wax you have really helped me in way I could never tell you thank you your books are wonderful

SHE IS AN INCREDIBLE WOMAN

♥♥It's like she's speaking for me, defending me! She is the voice for people like me. which are living with depression! I personally thank her for sharing her struggles with depression!♥♥we the depressed, are not alone. Even though this illness makes us often feel as if we are! "God bless you all!!"

Absolute gold. What an articulate and intelligent woman you proved them wrong ruby.

I just shared my feelings about, my depression and can't help but cry.

Wise words Ruby, good luck to you.

Carrie Fisher also gave similarly wonderful talks about and shared mental health insights. Excellent lessons.

Excellent, I only wish if the interviewer would let her talk more, instead of constant interrupting - sometimes it's hard to follow...

I love Ruby, she's a funny genius. A winning combo, I'd say.

I had been watching everything I could find with Carrie Fisher, so You Tube brought up a couple of clips with Ruby Wax (Wachs). In the U.S., I hadn't come across her before. I looked up her Wikipedia entry out of curiosity and found the mental health part of her career on You Tube also. I am inspired by midlife education and reinvention of self - breaking free of "the past is prologue." Carrie Fisher and Ruby Wax are helping me toward a support group for Hoarding OCD. I am trying to get unstuck and realize the counter-productivity of the internalized shame and self-reproach. The interviewers quote was just laying on more of those voices externally. If someone without depression thinks that it is indulgences of the privileged classes, they have themselves been sheltered from the suffering of the multitudes that may not have the platform and the vehicle to be heard that this woman has. She doesn't have to be perfect. I do see that the interviewer had compassion for the parents who survived the diaspora of the Holocaust. Now it is time to have compassion for the intergenerational effects also.

Ruby was great and I loved the interview

I adore Ruby - she's been such an inspiration to me

What an Inspiration you are Ruby!!!

i am no tv watcher, the tv has always made me feel ill. However, i used to make an effort to watch her shows.. Even saw her near my house in chelsea ! i love her to bits , she is lovely, and the only woman who made me laugh.

Ruby is brilliant. I love her so much.

Survival of the wisest! Bloody brilliant!

Ruby Wax sets its out so well! awesome woman

Loved Ruby Hated the interviewer

The questions are insulting. This lady knows her stuff.

Ruby is just so bloody talented I can't stand it. Listen to the way she can speak in another accent immediately!!!

What a wise, fascinating woman!

Listening to this I believe that Ruby Wax has truly evolved in her mindset. Like on a whole different level and that gets all my respect. If more high profile celebrities take up such causes it goes some way to provide purpose for them being where they are in the first place. Sackur here mentions Janet Street Porter's criticism of such disciplines in the context of psychology. Janet, who would like to think of herself as the working classes de-facto columnist is in the business of heckling and antagonizing complex topics; she does this simply because in some way she believes this ups herself to a level worthy of praise. It is not a very beneficial way to be at all. If you want to know more about this truly intriguing subject - Neuroplasticity, along with reading up on Ruby Wax's scholarly takes, and I am sure more gems will come; also research the likes of Norman Doidge and Gabor Mate. Gabor is my favorite read/speaker though, the studies he has done should be made available to parents everywhere.

Ruby you are so awesome!

Thank you ruby you are a real human

Great interview, touched on many notable theories for my own mind to absorb. V useful indeed.

The conversation was unnecessarily difficult, through no fault of Ruby's. I blame the other guy.

Aren't these interviewers irritating? Do they genuinely believe that this aggressive, rude, brusque method of interviewing people who have something valid to say is what viewers want to see? Well done Ruby for getting her message across without too much distraction from him.

The misnomer is, as this interviewer seems to infer, that if you understand your brain you will no longer suffer from its illness, As Ruby so correctly points out you learn yourself and your triggers and recognise them earlier and hopefully can put the sandbags up before the deluge begins. She is brave because as the interviewer intimated, and what people who suffer depression all the time face, 'what do you have to be depressed about...?' And she doesn't fly across the table or just weep. Would love a chat over coffee or wine with Ruby.

Brilliant woman!

bless rubgy wax, I saw her show last night brilliant

Thanks Ruby,good job,you are opening doors

Thank You Ruby ❣️Sharing with my BFF‼️

Don't like the interviews attitude.

Wtf is this guy INTERRUPTING her?????? She's invited there to answer the questions. LET HER!!!

I love this woman. Love what's she's wearing too!

I do have it all the time. I have persistent depressive disorder. I've never been without it, and have greater periods of double depression. Nobody gets that, especially most other people with depression. Its really exhausting and has nearly killed me so many times over the years. This time I think it will. Nobody gets it.

Loved Girls on Top, she's so much deeper than her character

loved that interview

Have never watched Hard Talk, so I don't know if Steven Sacker(?) just has this confrontational interview style, but it does seem like he was on the attack for most of it. I'm gaining a fondness for Ruby Wax, but many of the interviews I've seen have been rehashing a lot of the same material. Perhaps he was being "hard" because he wanted to see if she could cough up something new or break character somehow. Thats the only reason I could see bringing up a barb of that nature toward the end, to entice Ruby Wax into making an interesting sound clip they could use for teasers. I do agree with many points Ruby Wax makes, in particular that mental illness is not like the cold or flu. You don't take a few pills or get bed rest and it goes away on its own. Its a part of the structure like a crooked window or door that opens to nowhere. Passers by will look up and say "Well SOMEONE fucked up" and keep going...until you start to notice there are a LOT of crooked windows and doors to nowhere. Mindfulness is not ignoring the windows and doors. By visualizing other possibilities you can turn the flaws into features. Medication can help, therapy can help, but more than anything the stigma of imperfection has to be dealt with. Ruby does it through humor, and I wish her nothing but the best, she has her work cut out for her when facing the Steves of the world.

Being in a state of depression is akin to being in the darkest and deepest cave with no stimuli to activate the senses and only swirling bats around your head for company.... ....That's my impression of it! A fucking monstrous illness and one I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy! Chris (UK).

Talent of a toothpick LOL

survival of the wisest rather than survival of the fittest , every fucking teacher should tell that to kids every fucking day before every fucking lesson. Ruby is freaking fantastic

Yes I do

he is so jealous of her.

I get more and more infuriated every time this humorless, tactless, unprofessional interviewer interrupts her.

Ruby is very pretty for an older woman.

There's something "repellant" about suffering from depression if you're part of the middle-class? Why? Because for Janet Street Porter money equals happiness? That goes to show the kind of person this Janet is.

Money Better

I always wondered what kind of person would need a laugh track to get what's funny. Now I know. This was a HardTalk cuz' it was HardToListenToThatMoronicInterviewer.

This boy should learn how to LISTEN

Does youtube make anyone feel dirty afterwards?

oh no im a victim. pity me

Making a living by the classic "observe yourself without judging". Come on...get a real job!