THE DEADBOLT: Is it true that you have been seeing some kind of guru who helps you with your life?

CARREY: “I’ve been seeing an acupuncturist. His name is Dr. Mao. He told me that people would be much better off if they stopped thinking of food as entertainment. And I agree with that. Even Gandhi said that you cannot have happiness without controlling the pallet.”

THE DEADBOLT: Were you unhealthy before?

CARREY: “No, but I dealt with depression before, and I tried dealing with it by taking Prozac. It was good for a little bit for my life, but Prozac didn't heal me. It didn’t get me to the bottom of my anger or my frustration, whatever it was.”

THE DEADBOLT: Are you off Prozac now?

CARREY: “Yes, I am. I realized that it is important that we need to feel our feelings, we need to let things out to get to the bottom of things. One of the most important things in our society today is that it is okay to let our feelings out. It’s okay to say to your kid, ‘Daddy is going to cry now.’ ¬ We need to get it out.”

THE DEADBOLT: You believe that by suppressing our emotions, we become sick?

CARREY: “Yes, I do believe for example that cancer is feeling trying to get out. That's my hypothesis. It'll use nicotine, whatever poison is in the atmosphere.”

THE DEADBOLT: So, we all need one of those primal scream rooms at home?

CARREY: “I believe that it’s healthy to get mad at whoever you want to get mad at. There is ways to do that, wonderful fantasies without really acting them out. You’ve got to express it first.”

THE DEADBOLT: Are you anti-drugs, like Tom Cruise?

CARREY: “You know we have a chemical problem in our society today. Everything is treated with a drug, and they are not made to make us better.”

THE DEADBOLT: What made you get rid of your depression?

CARREY: “I take supplements. There is a whole new way of curing depression and I am going to talk and write about it some day, because I believe that there is no one better in this world to talk about this than a comedian. I know the way out of depression.”

THE DEADBOLT: Well, give us the solution.

CARREY: “There are new treatments that are not being offered to people. As I mentioned, the supplements I am taking are hydroxi-triptophine, tyrosin, elements of the brain that are supposed to be there but that are short in a lot of people. You can actually create dopamine and serotonin.”

THE DEADBOLT: Supplements help?

CARREY: “Yes, they do. And you need to do some mental work as well. You need to get out of bed every day and say that life is good. That’s what I did, although at times in my life it was very difficult for me.”

THE DEADBOLT: Are you saying nobody should take Prozac?

CARREY: “No, I know that Tom Cruise got in a lot of trouble for saying this. I am saying that it won’t cure anybody, and there is a cure for depression, but they just don’t tell anybody about it, because there is a lot of money in it.”

THE DEADBOLT: You suffered from depression in the height of your career?

CARREY: “Yes, I did. My doctor asked me how I get out of bed every morning, because I had no dopamine and no seratonin in my brain. I just answered that it was pure will power that got me going. But there was no real enjoyment. Those days, thank goodness, are behind me now.”

THE DEADBOLT: Jim, on a lighter note: why did you cut your hair?

CARREY: “Oh, man, I was so bummed about it. It was for a role (“Yes Man”). I like my hair down to my shoulders. Maybe I'll grow it again.”