Listening to music is a great and healthy way to cope with mind obstacles in trying times. In honor of National Suicide Prevention Month, The Strange is Beautiful has created a Spotify playlist including featured artists from our Sadcore Sundays posts. We hope that these songs lift your spirits and help get you through tough times.
Sadcore Sundays: SoKo Talks Anxiety and Her Yeti, aka Depression
Artists pour out their emotions from their conscious and subconscious thoughts when they write, record and perform it for audiences who in turn heal from the music.
Many artists suffer from anxiety and depression. Being an artist for a living can be rewarding and medicinal, but can conversely stimulate more mental health issues. An obvious reason that this happens is because of the long erratic hours for little pay. However, a more subtle correlation is, energetically, after a performance, the artist has relived the story they wrote about and given a part of themselves to the audience. Afterward, when everyone is gone, it can feel like something is missing. The adrenaline rush is gone. The people parading around them are gone. The compliments, the love from fans, are all too quickly gone….
It takes strength and passion to be an artist.