The 43-year-old told comedian Marc Maron’s WTF podcast he was sent to a mental asylum by his parents as a child and was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder when he was 25 years old.

“I was actually ­­— by my parents — taken to a mental asylum,” Harbour told Maron. “I have one thing to say about the mental asylum. I’ve romanticised two things in my life and both have fallen short.

“[It’s] really not as fun as you think it is,” Harbour said about his time in the asylum. “No, but you do have a romantic idea of it — [like] ‘you’re a genius’ — and it just ends up being sad and smells like s**t.

“And the other thing was boating. I just recently went out on a ship in open water and I’d read Moby Dick a million times and it really is not as sexy. It’s very similar to the mental asylum experience.”

The Netflix star continued his free-flowing conversation and discussed his bipolar diagnosis and subsequent drug use.

“And then I was diagnosed bipolar. And that’s actually when the drugs came in,” Harbour said. “I’ve been medicated bipolar for a long time. And I’ve had problems going on and off. I’ve had a struggle. Going on and off the medications.”

Harbour joked that if he ever took the time to write a self-help book, “It’s going to be like ‘sit on the couch and play some video games’”.

“You let your mind go you’re like a few days shy of walking down the street wearing robes,” he said, jokingly.

“No joke. Like, ‘Come join me!’”

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