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![]() A Good Man Is Hard to Find (psychosis:"I once was better / I put off all my grief"). |
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![]() After Hours (agoraphobia) |
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![]() All the Madmen (from perspective of a mental patient) |
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![]() Antonin Artaud This song was about a french play writer named "Antonin Artaud" who was a tormented schizophrenic drug addict. |
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![]() Ballad of Dwight Fry ("see my lonely mind explode, when I’ve gone insane") |
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![]() Basket Case Billie Joe Armstrong’s song about his struggle with anxiety |
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![]() Beethoven (I love to listen to) (about obsessive-compulsive disorder) |
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![]() Black Burning Heart very bleak song relating to suicide |
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![]() Black Crow Blues bipolar protagonist, sometimes "too high to fall", sometimes "so low, I don’t know if I can come up at all" |
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![]() Brain Damage (hearing voices; mentions lobotomy) |
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![]() Brian Wilson (narrator compares himself to Brian Wilson, founder of the Beach Boys, who suffered from bipolar disorder, psychosis and drug problems) |
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![]() Can You Hear Them (schizophrenic singing about "all the voices in my head") |
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![]() China Girl China Girl’ is a street name for a powerful opioid drug used for anesthesia and analgesia. It is also related to antipsychotic drugs such as Compazine, Mellaril, Stelazine, and Thorazine, "Street names for fentanyl include apache, china girl, china white, dance fever, friend, goodfella, jackpot, murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash", source www. drugabusehelp. com, A strong link exists between drug abuse and mental illness. This song’s lyrics describe a man’s growing anxiety and his relationship with the drug ’china girl’. "I could escape this feeling with my China Girl", hints at the drug nature of China Girl (he’s looking for escape from a condition), and "It’s in the whites of my eyes", "And when I get excited..." are hints of the elevated anxiety he experiences (the condition he needs to escape). |
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![]() Christine (About a girl with multiple personality disorder) |
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![]() Cinderella Man (about a man whose transition from poverty to wealth has made him manic depressive) |
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![]() Cool Zombie (about a period of time when he was on medication for bi-polar) |
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![]() Cradle Your Hatred (about how his mental illness has affected his relationships) |
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![]() Crazy train "Mental wounds still screaming, driving me insane, I’m goin’ off the rails on a crazy train’ |
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![]() Destroyer (narrator has "paranoia, the destroyer") |
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![]() Diary of a madman (about Depersonalization: The mirror tells me lies/ Could I mistake myself for someone/ Who lives behind my eyes?) |
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![]() Die in the Summertime (details depression and self mutilation) |
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![]() Don't Talk to Strangers (about social anxiety disorder: "Don’t talk. Don’t let them inside your mind. Run away! Run away!") |
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![]() Down in It (depression: "I was up above it, now I’m down in it") |
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![]() Down On Me (persecution complex-- "everybody in this whole round world, they’re down on me") |
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![]() Dream Police (paranoia in nightmares "they’re driving me insane, these men inside my brain") |
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![]() Everybody Hurts (gyvai @ MTV Unplugged) (told from the point of view of someone comforting a friend who is suicidal) |
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![]() Fade To Black (depression and suicidal thoughts) |
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![]() Fear of a Blank Planet (bipolar disorder) |
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![]() Fell on Black Days The writer said that "Fell on Black Days" was like this ongoing fear I've had for years...It's a feeling that everyone gets. You're happy with your life, everything's going well, things are exciting—when all of a sudden you realize you're unhappy in the extreme, to the point of being really, really scared. There's no particular event you can pin the feeling down to, it's just that you realize one day that everything in your life is FUCKED!" which means the song could be about depression. |
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![]() Fire and Rain (recovery from depression) |
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![]() Fire of Unknown Origin (deals with breeavement, anger and depression over loss) |
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![]() From the Inside (The entire album was inspired by persons Cooper met while hospitalized for alcoholism) |
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![]() Frontier Psychiatrist (mentions insanity, therapy, psychosomatic illness etc.) |
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![]() Gloomy Sunday (About the death of a loved one and wanting to die as well) |
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![]() Good for You (obsession and denial "Everything is fine, I’m lonely all the time" and "There’s nothing wrong, just don’t take too long.") |
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![]() Happy House (set in an asylum) |
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![]() Hater (bullying and suicide) |
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![]() Heaven Knows (about the suicide of a friend of the lead singer) |
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![]() Having a Blast Suicide |
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![]() Here Comes The Anxiety (about the lead singers experiences with his own anxiety) |
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![]() Highly Strung (panic attacks) |
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![]() How to Save a Life (about a boy that is suffering from depression and being mistreated) |
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![]() Hurt drug addiction and guilt |
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![]() I Wish It Would Rain is about depression as the result of a breakup |
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![]() Incommunicado (social isolation, loneliness, inability to communicate meaningfully) |
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![]() In the Night song about someone's demise into darkness and depression, finally into drugs addiction and suicide |
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![]() I Had Lost My Mind |
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![]() I Hate Myself And Want To Die |
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![]() Inmates (We're All Crazy) |
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![]() Institutionalized https://depression.fandom.com/wiki/Songs_about_mental_illness |