Drew Carey calls therapy a 'big game changer' as he opens up on facing depression since the age of 18

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Drew Carey candidly spoke about his battle with mental health as he revealed his journey marked by adversity and eventual enlightenment.

The 65-year-old opened up on how his close friends and therapy have helped him in his path towards mental health wellness.

Drew Carey says his trusted circle of close friends 'always support each other'

'The Price Is Right' host shared how his therapist and his trusted circle of close friends help each other.

"Therapy's been a big game changer for me. I have a great therapist I can count on to talk to me, a couple of them, actually. And I have a crew of very close friends that I'm in," he said.

"We always support each other. If anybody's having a down time, we always are there for them," Carey told People.

Reflecting on his mental health struggles that began at a young age, he revealed that he attempted to take his own life twice by taking sleeping pills at the age of 18, and at age 23.

Recalling the times he drank a lot during his study at Kent State University, Carey said, "If I was with my friends joking around, I’d be maniacally happy. Really high highs, really low lows. I couldn't have picked a major. I couldn't have told you with certainty what I wanted to do with my life that a lot of people can."

"There were people that just knew what they wanted to do, and they needed the college degree as a step along the way to their life's path that they were sure of. There were a lot of people like that, and I was not one of them," he added.

Drew Carey says stand-up comedy was 'like a religious experience' in the initial years

The comedian who did not earn his college degree switched to stand-up comedy after a six-year stint as a field radio operator in the Marine Corps Reserve.

Carey made his mark in stand-up comedy with a memorable appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson' in 1991.

“It was like a religious experience. I was in a flow state. You can’t just stop and go, ‘Holy s**t! Johnny Carson!’ I have to keep performing,” he said of the first big break.

He eventually solidified his place in the entertainment industry when he began hosting 'The Price Is Right' as he embraced the challenge of revitalizing TV's longest-running game show with his unique flair with 233 episodes which according to him was "the longest I’d ever had a job doing anything" until 2007.

Gradually, the comedian found a sense of self-worth and the realization of being able to seek help from his therapists and close friends.

"I have normal down days now, although I’ve got to be careful because sometimes I do have suicidal thoughts if things get pretty bad,” Carey admitted.

"It gets pretty bad sometimes, but then I know that I have tools to get out of it. I remember talking to my therapist once about something I was really angry and stressed about, and she goes, ‘Well, you should be angry and distressed. There was a wrong thing that happened to you,'" he added.

Carey further reflected on the importance of learning to be kinder to himself. "I've learned to quit judging myself, because I feel bad that day or something happened,” the actor said.

"I used to just think that I'm not allowed to feel that, and if I felt that, that was the end of the world. ‘Stop feeling that, can't feel that, it's wrong.’ I used to go through all those things. Now I'm just like, 'Oh, okay. This will work out,'" he added.