Crazy Is The New Black
Filed under: Music Minute
Adam Duritz is opening up about his mental illness.
The Counting Crows lead singer is admitting publicly that he's spent the last few years battling severe depression and an inability to connect with people.
"I've been dealing with mental illness," Duritz says. "But I didn't want to say anything for a long time. I went crazy. It was scary."
After years of not being able to sort out what was going wrong, Duritz finally found a doctor who pinpointed the issue. He was diagnosed with a disassociative disorder, which can distort reality for those who have it.
He needs to have a nice long chat with Britney. It'll be good for her to have peers that have gone through similar issues.
The new Counting Crows album, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, is a double album inspired by the painful journey Duritz went through.
"The album is about a downward spiral, losing my mind and about trying to get it back," he says. "Not about getting it back but trying to get it back."
Seems like he's doing much better and that's a good thing!
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his hair looks like krusty the klown
perez, mental illness is just that… AN ILLNESS… a DISEASE that no one asks for or wants, when patrick swayzee was diagnosed with cancer, also a DISEASE, you felt bad for him and told everyone to pray for him. People with mental illness are stigmatized enough and you, a person that has the potential for so much exposure just shines that much brighter of a negative light on the disease. 1 IN 4 PEOPLE SURFER FROM SOME SORT OF MENTAL ILLNESS!!! so Perez, think about it, you probably know someone very close to you that suffers, would you talk about them this way???????
He looks like Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons with that hair.
Love this man. Have been a fan of CC from the beginning…..forever. Much love.
Funny thing…….Went to a show a while back. Googoo dolls opened for the Counting Crows. Loved it the show, and the irony. XOXO
I think it is wrong on so many levels to make fun of someone with a mental ILLNESS. Would it be so funny to make fun of someone with Aids, or Diabetes or Cancer? Get SOME class!
Best of luck Adam - you are courageous and a fantastic artist. This is a debilitatingly painful condition, and you are helping lots of people by discussing it.
Other Posters - Perez makes funny to entertain - but his post is for the common good. Lighten up folks - if he was PC you wouldn't read him!
He's got a case of the ASSHOLE FACE. No wonder people don't recognize him and give him dirty stares in public for being UGLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UGLY!
UGLY!!!
ASSHOLE FACE!!!!
ANTISOCIAL RETARD UGLY FREAK!!!
CRAZY JEW LAWYER FATSO OLD MAN DAD LOSER FACE!
You look like a total ASSHOLE DOUCHE with those DREADS!!!
HAHAHA, LIKE A SCRAPPY CARTOON CHARACTER. I'LL BET PEOPLE CRINGE AND WANT TO SCRAM WHEN YOU TRY TO TALK TO THEM!
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
GO KILL YOURSELF, MAYBE THEN WE'LL CARE!!
dopey dipshit
There's a guy wincing in the background, at how UGLY THAT POOR BOY IS.
yucky yuck fat n tall head with fake nappy dread.
There's a guy wincing in the background, at how UGLY THAT POOR BOY IS.
yucky yuck fat n tall head with fake nappy dread.
I don’t see any mention of Howard Stern in this article!
OK, maybe in America it's not as out in the open.
But you DON'T make fun of people for mental illness.
Alcoholism, drug addiction, yes, mental illness no!
But if you ARE going to, don't use the word crazy.
he looks like a living version of Side Show Bob
I've always thought Adam was seriously hot. He STILL looks seriously hot. CC have never gone away, they've just pulled out of the mainstream. He has mental problems b/c he walks the fine line between genius and crazy, as many artists do!
Give Howard some credit next time you rip him off.
i have disassociative disorder along w/ severe depression & borderline personality disorder accompanied by social anxiety. it sucks but it's treatable. good luck to adam.
It makes so much sense why I like his music. It comes from a place that is so internal, introverted, disjointed and that is how my mind understand music, poetry and thoughts as a fluid granny weatherall type slip of emotions
Perez,
Pst! It's a dissociative disorder, not disassociative.
:)
Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings is not a double album
but it is FANTASTIC
God Bless the Counting Crows!!!
Wow, you just can't help yourself! You just can't stifle that inner bitch! Again, this is an adult talking about his bout with mental illness and you can't resist poking fun at him and drawing doodles on it.
I really do hope that you never have to deal with anything as traumatic as mental illness or a public break up or anything remotely painful and have some ass clown making fun of you to millions of people.
I get the softer side of Perez–you post at least once a day about some random charity, as if that good karma will offset the bad karma of making fun and profiting off people's misfortunes.
You may be making lots of money off of this business, but if you do some research, most of all the "gossip" columnists throughout history have been pretty unhappy people who did not have very positive private lives. Might be some connection.
What the fuck is up with that nasty ass hair?!! He reminds me of Sideshow Bob. I can NOT believe Jen Aniston and Courtney Cox ever dated this homeless lookin dude!! I do feel bad for him that he has the Britney syndrome.
Why don't you give proper credit to where you got the story from. It was on Howard Stern Thursday.
Slimeball
Perez-y, you disappoint - aren't you going to say anything about his dred WIG?????? I saw him years ago in concert in Berkeley (where he's from) and he was in the audience without his wig on - what a poser!
u need a serious hair do
At least he's honest!
Being in the entertainment industry can make one go crazy, that is for SURE!
Isn't that Daughtry with a fro???? hmmm makes you wonder………
No matter what you say the boy can sing. just saw him the other night on one of the late night shows.
I smoked up with them in Lawrence, KS in the 90's and he seemed fine to me. Of course, we were high…
yes, as heard on the Howard Stern Show
AT LEAST GIVE HIM THE CREDIT YA DOUCHE!
i work in the MH field and find this post "interesting" because depression and dissociative d/o are two very different things, though you wouldnt know it from the post. and, by the way, dissociative d/o is the "new" name for multiple personality disorder and almost no one gets that diagnosis…it is possible to dissociate without having that diagnosis and it is also possible to be depressed in addition to it but the quote and the post make it all a little confusing. i doubt he really has mpd, but clearly has some mental health issues he's needed to clear up. either way i liked the crows early stuff…when i was in high school.
Its nice to see Adam on here, without you saying horrible things about him!! lol
I'm so excited that they have a new album!
I worked as a dancer on the Sunset strip at the Best Club called CRAZY GIRLS.ADAM came in often ..he sat at the stage , watched girls partied and never ever spent a penny. he is one of the cheapest FUCKS ever. Now, George Clooney..thats a man……..very generous, .Brett Michaels takes care of his girls..but this guy sucked !!
he is a cheap duck !!!! never tips dancers and his hair cockalocks stick like mildew
Adam Duritz rocks! Love The Counting Crows….His voice is sexy, his lyrics smart. Can't wait to hear the new cd!
Re: lisa – "and, by the way, dissociative d/o is the "new" name for multiple personality disorder" Dissociative disorder is not the new name for multiple personality disorder. It's new name is dissociative identity disorder (DID).
He's crazy because he has an ugly face and horrible hair.
Do you blame the guy?
I'D LIKE TO PUT A MATCH TO THAT
Salute his courage, we all know there is a fine line between genius and crazy, and the most creative artists walk both sides of that line. I lived on depressed side of the line without the artistry, thank you to people like him for speaking up and making the less talented of us feel better about having gone through it. AGREE WITH POST #32.
IT'S DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER, NOT DISASSOCIATIVE. THAT'S NOT EVEN A WORD. YOU'RE VILE.
It's not a double album jackass.
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Counting Crows is by far the best band ever! Their songs really have meaning and are moving. The new album is superb second only to the classic "August and Everything After"