He said his wife, singer Patti Scialfa, can "observe a freight train bearing down" during his bouts of mental illness.
Springsteen describes how he struggled with depression at the time of his 2012 album Wrecking Ball.
The album includes the song This Depression.
"I was crushed between 60 and 62, good for a year, and out again from 63 to 64," he writes. "Not a good record.
"Patti will observe a freight train bearing down, loaded with nitroglycerin and running quickly out of track... she gets me to the doctors and says, 'This man needs a pill'."
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In an interview with Vanity Fair Springsteen also voiced fears he would suffer in the same way his father Douglas.
"You don't know the illness's parameters,"
"Can I get sick enough to where I become a lot more like my father than I thought I might?"
In his book, Springsteen says his father had relatives with prominent mental health issues, including agoraphobia and hair-pulling disorders.
"As a child, it was simply mysterious, embarrassing and ordinary," he wrote.
Springsteen voiced fears he would be affected in the same way as his father, Douglas, had been. “You don’t know the illness’s parameters, Can I get sick enough to where I become a lot more like my father than I thought I might?”
In his book, Springsteen says his father had relatives with mental health issues, including agoraphobia and hair-pulling disorders, which were undiagnosed or not discussed. “As a child, it was simply mysterious, embarrassing and ordinary,” he writes.
In the interview he detailed his troubled relationship with his father, recalling that Springsteen Sr was unable to tell his son “I love you” before his death in 1998. “You’d hear his voice breaking up, but he couldn’t get out the words,” he said.
Recently at the reopening of Asbury Lanes, Springsteen jammed with rock photographer Danny Clinch’s Tangiers Blues Band Bruce Springsteen helped rock a refurbished 1960s bowling alley-turned music venue near the Asbury Park boardwalk.
Springsteen told the crowd “it’s been a joy” watching the rebirth of Asbury.
Actor Hugh Jackman was in the house at the Asbury Lanes on Monday night as Springsteen jammed for about 30 minutes with Tangiers Blues Band. The four-song set included Huey Smith’s “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu,” ”I Just Wanna Make Love to You,” by Muddy Waters, “Down the Road Apiece,” by the Rolling Stones, and the Isley Brothers’ “Twist and Shout.”
