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Music and Mental Health

Musician Interview with Heather Schmid About Transformations
"I am changed forever because of dramatically positive and dramatically difficult struggles that I faced and I hope I am strong and better because of…
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Music as a Moment for Mental Relaxation and Feeling Your Feelings
"I just realized that while I was playing, this playing required so much focus, that I couldn't do anything else. I was just totally in this moment."
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Counting Crows' Adam Duritz - Dissociation, Derealization, and Creative Drive
“If I have to choose between a day when my mental illness was making me feel terrible, and a day when my mental illness was making me feel terrible, but…
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Music and Mental Health in Magazines: Revolver Spring 2024
"Smith wrote the songs in her bedroom, transmuting her feelings into furiously immediate tirades. A kind of therapy. A cleanse." - Emma Madden on…
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Art and Mental Health Interview Answered in Music/Sound Art with Lizzy Co
Exploring the intersection between creativity and mental health through our auditory senses
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Art and Mental Health Interview with Street Photographer Neil Milton
How imposter syndrome, the pandemic and going to therapy relate to the creativity in music and street photography.
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When The Music Stops ... Music for Mental Health, Mental Health Problems in the Industry, and More
A collection from the archives and an exploration of the early days of forming my questions around the ways in which art can both heal and harm us
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Sneak Peek Into My Art and Mental Health Interviews Process
"At one point, after being medicated I couldn’t create the same. Everything about art felt dull and flat. I was on like five different medications at…
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