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Years ago, I was on a show withTaylor Tomlinsonat the Hollywood Laugh Factory.
She may suffer from depression and panic attacks, but its societys attitudes toward these things that are crazy.
Next she announces shes on an antidepressant, which friends warned her beforehand didnt make them feel like themselves.
Yeah, me neither, Tomlinson replies at 1:28.
At 1:51, we learn that a high-school-age Tomlinson once asked her father for help after suffering panic attacks.
Tomlinson embodies a conservative dad desperately holding on to a jar of Jif like a buoy in the storm.
The fear in his voice and his desperate clinging to the jar make it clear its not working.
He is as miserable as Tomlinson was with no path to bettering his condition.
Tomlinson then reveals the only serious advice her father gave her on the subject.
She bugs her eyes out and talks slowly, seeming almost annoyed to have to be a parent.
Just run into the woods until youre not a monster anymore, she continues as her father.
Dont let them see you change they wont accept you for what you truly are.
Tomlinson next describes how, in keeping with current therapeutic thinking, shes been trying to parent herself.
But its a misdirection all to set up a callback to the peanut-butter bit.
Tomlinson says audience members who hear this bit worry which part of the chocolate-raisin combo they are.
Judging by the seven-second applause break that follows, she nails it.
Anyone trying to steer America back to the attitudes of her fathers time is in for a bumpy ride.
