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Hi everyone! I wanted to do a book giveaway to celebrate 1k followers. Thank you so much for supporting what i’m trying to do here. I chose the books below because they are my personal favorites. So here are the rules.

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source Though we all know Wayne Brady as the upbeat comedian-turned-TV star of shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Let’s Make a Deal, the 42-year-old Emmy-award winner is now opening up to ET’s Nischelle Turner about his debilitating depression.

Brady admits he has secretly battled with depression for years and describes the harrowing emotions he’s experienced. “People are like, ‘Wayne Brady’s always happy!’” he says. “No I’m not. Because I’m human.”

"Having a bad day is one thing, having a bad week is another, having a bad life … You don’t want to move, you can’t move in the darkness," he explains. "You’re like, ‘I am just going to sit right here and I want to wallow in this. As much as it hurts, I am going to sit right here because this is what I deserve. This is what I deserve, so I am going to sit here because I am that horrible of a person.’"

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The constant self-doubt turned into a vicious cycle.

"It starts this cycle where you tell yourself these lies … and those lies become true to you," he says. "So, you stick to your own truth you’ve set up. ‘If I am this bad, then why should any of this matter?’ I feel at that point, you end up wanting to stop the pain."

Brady reveals he hit rock bottom last June on his 42nd birthday, recalling, “I was there by myself, in my bedroom and I had a complete breakdown … Just go ahead and imagine for yourself a brother in his underwear, in his room, you got snot … and that birthday was the beginning of, ‘OK, I’ve got to make a change.’”

An event that especially hit him hard was the tragic passing of Robin Williams in August, who took his own life after a longtime struggle with depression.

Brady, who knew Williams from the comedian’s appearance on Whose Line, tweeted on the day news broke of Williams’ death.

"When he was on stage [in] full-on Robin mode — and I know this from being blessed enough to work with him — you could not touch that man," he tells ET. "He made all these people feel great. And at the same time, knowing that he had this sense of … what I make up in my mind, this low sense of self-worth, of belonging, of loneliness, of pain that all the money in the world can’t cure, all the accolades and awards, and all the love from people all over the world … all that love could still not stop that man from saying, I am in so much pain.’"

He also points out the double standard in Hollywood when it comes to admitting to depression as opposed to a drug problem.

"Nobody wants to out themselves so to speak, or if they out themselves, it’s in a very — I hate to say it — Hollywood way," he says. "It’s actually cool to go into rehab for some people. … But if someone says, ‘I’m clinically depressed,’ that sounds like someone’s making something up. It’s like, ‘Psst, you’re not depressed.’"

Brady now says he’s currently on the road to recovery, and gives a lot of credit to his ex-wife, Mandie Taketa. He says the two are still close friends, despite divorcing in 2007 after eight years of marriage. They remain committed to co-parenting their daughter Maile, now 11.

"We said we want to give her the closest experience she can have to living in the same house," he says of being neighbors with his ex. "And we’ve always lived in different homes. We just live super-close now. The fact of the matter is, I like her mom. She was down with me when nobody in the world was down with me, except my mom. There was loyalty there, there was respect, there is trust — she is my baby mama."

He also has this piece of advice for those battling with their own struggles with depression.

Soooo, about a month ago, we reached 5k followers. :D

And, for those of you who read the ramblings that happen in the tags, a giveaway has been promised to celebrate this momentous occasion!

And it’s taken some time but, finally here it is! Now, before we start on what you could win and the rules and all that boring stuff, us here at TAWSD would just like to thank you for everything! Because without all 5k+ of you guys, we admins would just be three very bored people with Photoshop twiddling our thumbs.

Anyway, without further ado, let us start this giveaway! Here’s what’s up for grabs:

An issue of Doctor Who Adventures [£2.70], which includes two posters (one being the TARDIS team in Pond Life) and a Time Lord Kit containing one TARDIS box, a black TARDIS wristband, two DW pins, and a holographic bookmark of Eleven!

A copy of the DW audiobook Day of the Cockroach [£10.20],written by Steve Lyons and read by the one and only Arthur Darvill!

A TARDIS 2013 daily planner [£4.99], perfect for keeping track of episode premieres (not that you need any help, we’re sure you know all those dates by heart)!

A DW novel titled The Krillitane Storm [£7], by Christopher Cooper and featuring the 10th Doctor and his lovely face!

Three little figurines on small TARDIS bases: one of Amy, one of the Last Centurion and one of a Saturnyne (from the episode Vampires of Venice).

A tiny yellow Dalek necklace [£3.50], made by gallifreyfields on Etsy! It’s very tiny and very cute; about 2cm in length on a 18 inch long chain. For our male followers, you can make this into a keychain. ;)

Rules and other useful stuff:

Giveaway ends on the 20th of November at 18:00 GMT exactly.

We want to reward our followers so obviously, you must be following TAWSD, duh!

To enter the giveaway, reblog this post ONCE. Likes will not count but if you want to like it so you can keep track of it, then go ahead!

The winner will be chosen via randomizer and contacted on the 20th. Said winner will then have until the 24th to respond with contact details (we will ship internationally). Past that period, another winner shall be chosen.

As for other rules, quite obviously all Tumblr rules concerning giveaways apply; most importantly that you must be 18 or older!

And that’s all folks. Happy reblogging and, once more and from the bottom of our hearts, thank you for your awesome submissions and nutty fanmail!

After the Doctor Who read through. Me and Jenna. Photo by Matt Smith.

Things a Whovian should do: when asked who you are, respond with “Don’t know! Still cooking.”