reporter: comedian gary ulman makes jokes about depression because he has to. i was so clearly in discuss, my hands were shaking. i acknowledged that i was sick, and i started to write jokes about it because that that s the most comfortable i am is when i m being funny. i started saying things like, have you ever gotten recognized in the psych ward? reporter: it a a true story, you were recognized in a psych ward? yes. yes, yes, yes. the day i got there, a man came up to me, he said, i won t tell anybody, but you re you re gary gulman, right? am i crazy? i grew up at a time the definition of manhood was so narrow. you were either clint eastwood or you were richard simmons. there was nothing in between. there were no paul rudds. laugher laugh no ki [ laughter ] no kind eyed mark ruffalos. reporter: his new film is a
or am i crazy? i grew up at a time the definition of manhood was so narrow. you were either clint eastwood or richard simmons. there were no paul rudds. no kind-eyed mark ruffalos. you had to be so hard. his new film the great depresh is a brutally honest look back at his journey two years ago with his battle with treatment resistant depression. you were afraid you would never get better? i wasn t communicating. i didn t feel good about anything. there was nothing i looked forward to and i spent a lot of time trying to think of painless suicides, yeah. reporter: he was forced to step back from comedy. admitted himself to the hospital, twice, and more. my psychiatrist is an advocate for an and an expert in something called elect