Because it is the 1 year anniversary of my nervous breakdown and has been almost a year since i have been in the psych ward. It is the longest i have gone without going into the hospital in many years.
I have Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or C-PTSD. My first hospitalization was when i was 15 years old, in 1993. I have been hospitalized about 100 times, no exaggeration. The psych wards were like a second home to me. I used to feel safe there, but things changed and i feel safer not being there.
Over the years, going in and out of the hospitals, i have run into a lot of the same people who also went in and out of the psych ward. I know that at least 4 of the people i knew well have committed suicide. It is a painful way to live. I'm glad i am doing better, but i know i may fall again, so i have to always be prepared.
Peace. Enjoy these songs.
Metallica- Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
The Kinks- Acute Schizophrenia Paranoid Blues
Geto Boys- Mind Playing Tricks on Me
more under cut
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Pink Floyd- Brain Damage
MF Doom- I Hear Voices
Elliot Smith- Memory Lane
Queen- I'm Going Slightly Mad
Joy Division- Disorder
Francis Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle- Nirvana
Eminem- Insane (from his new album Relapse)
Pixies- Where Is My Mind?
Ramones- Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
Pearl Jam- Crazy Mary
James Taylor- Fire and Rain
Insane Clown Posse/Tech N9ne- Madhouse
Joan Osborne- Crazy Baby
Rolling Stones- 19th Nervous Breakdown
D12- American Psycho
Dead Kennedy's- Ill In the Head
Ozzy Osborne- Crazy Train
Matchbox 20- Unwell
Green Day- Basket Case
Nina Simone- Misunderstood
Cypress Hill- Insane in the Brain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK33KD7j_nc
Bob Dylan- Black Crow Blues
Koko Taylor & Willie Dixon- Insane Asylum
Nico- Janitor of Lunacy
Tupac- Ready 4 Whatever
Porter Waggoner- Rubber Room
Dio- Strange Highways
I have Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or C-PTSD. My first hospitalization was when i was 15 years old, in 1993. I have been hospitalized about 100 times, no exaggeration. The psych wards were like a second home to me. I used to feel safe there, but things changed and i feel safer not being there.
Over the years, going in and out of the hospitals, i have run into a lot of the same people who also went in and out of the psych ward. I know that at least 4 of the people i knew well have committed suicide. It is a painful way to live. I'm glad i am doing better, but i know i may fall again, so i have to always be prepared.
Peace. Enjoy these songs.
Metallica- Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
The Kinks- Acute Schizophrenia Paranoid Blues
Geto Boys- Mind Playing Tricks on Me
more under cut
...
Pink Floyd- Brain Damage
MF Doom- I Hear Voices
Elliot Smith- Memory Lane
Queen- I'm Going Slightly Mad
Joy Division- Disorder
Francis Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle- Nirvana
Eminem- Insane (from his new album Relapse)
Pixies- Where Is My Mind?
Ramones- Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
Pearl Jam- Crazy Mary
James Taylor- Fire and Rain
Insane Clown Posse/Tech N9ne- Madhouse
Joan Osborne- Crazy Baby
Rolling Stones- 19th Nervous Breakdown
D12- American Psycho
Dead Kennedy's- Ill In the Head
Ozzy Osborne- Crazy Train
Matchbox 20- Unwell
Green Day- Basket Case
Nina Simone- Misunderstood
Cypress Hill- Insane in the Brain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK33KD7j_nc
Bob Dylan- Black Crow Blues
Koko Taylor & Willie Dixon- Insane Asylum
Nico- Janitor of Lunacy
Tupac- Ready 4 Whatever
Porter Waggoner- Rubber Room
Dio- Strange Highways
- Current Music:insane in the brain- cypress hill
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One of my favorite songs about mental illness is "How to Disappear Completely" by Radiohead.
yeah, james taylor actually wrote fire and rain when he was at mclean hospital. he has been there many times. i heard he was there when i was there once actually, but he goes to the pavilion... the rich people's ward. mclean is where girl interrupted took place. sylvia plath and anne sexton were on the ward where girl interrupted took place. that is usually the ward i went to. it is coed now. it is a good ward. the last time i was at mclean they sent me to a hellhole though.