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Sadcore Sundays: SoKo Talks Anxiety and Her Yeti, aka Depression

Posted by strange on April 20, 2018
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.

Posted in: Interviews, Interviews of Musicians, Sadcore Sundays, Sadcore Sundays Interviews, TSIB Guide | Tagged: anxiety and art, anxiety and music, anxiety and musicians, birth control and depression, depressed musicians, depression and music, diabolo menthe, experimental, my dreams dictate my reality, Ross Robinson, seasonal depression, shannen roberts, soko, soko anxiety, soko depression, SoKo mental health, SoKo seasonal depression, SoKo yoga, Stéphanie Sokolinski, the strange is beautiful, who wears the pants, yoga for mind obstacles

Part 2: The Effect of Hormonal Birth Control on Mental Health – Interview with Holly Grigg-Spall

Posted by strange on April 26, 2017
Part 2: The Effect of Hormonal Birth Control on Mental Health - Interview with Holly Grigg-Spall

Below is Part Two of author Holly Grigg-Spall’s interview that explains why low dose hormonal birth control pills are like low tar cigarettes, on the side effects of estrogen such as cancer and the importance of ovulation for our well-being.

Posted in: Interviews, Media Reviews, Self Care | Tagged: birth control, birth control and depression, birth control and mental health, birth control and panic attacks, body politics, holly grigg-spall, hormonal birth control, hormones, mirena iud, sweetening the pill, withdrawal bleeding

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