Music I could talk about
1-800-273-8255
title is the number for the american national suicide prevention lifeline
trying to prevent suicides
Fake happy
sad lyrics, happy beat
masking emotions
depression
Hard Times
depression
happy beat, sad lyrics
masking emotions
Rose colored boy
feeling pressured to look at the world with blind optimism when you actually feel very hopeless
forced positivity means it's harder to express negative emotions in a healthy way
built up emotions
Rose colour distracts from everything else
coping mechanism
easier to paint everything rosy than to actually try to heal
bubble of illusion to distract from issue
Army dreamers
song about effects of war and about a mother who grieves her young adult son who was killed on military manoeuvres
wrestles with guilt about what she could have done to prevent it
PTSD for those who are left behind
grief
Wuthering heights
song by Kate bush about the book
save myself
'Before you can save anyone else out there, you need to first save yourself.'
individual experiences of struggle and resilience
importance of self care
feeling of going through hard times, and being useless in achieving one's goal
'you can run on the fumes of being a teenager for as long as you want, but eventually life hits you real hard.'
putting on a mask to fit in with society so you aren't judged
starts sad reflecting the genuine feeling and then puts on a show and a happy beat to hide