Monty Webber is a surfer/artist/filmmaker/writer from Bondi, Australia, who endured more than three years of constant suicidal depression while on, ironically, a mixture of prescribed anti-depressant pharmaceuticals. Sadly, his experience is common in Australia, where the use of such drugs per head of population is the third highest in the world.
Monty has emerged from it with a new type of spirituality that would have shocked his younger self.
Webber's family is well known in Australian surfing circles. The candour he shows in this conversation takes enormous courage.
To buy any of Webber's many amusing books about the seedier side of Australian urban surfing life, search for him on Amazon.