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- 6y
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- 6y
Hello Korie, thanks a lot for your reply ! I guess that is what it is, it's connected so strongly to who I am and my relationship to the world that I am just really scared of losing this. OCD always targets what I care about anyway. I'm trying to be patient and to tell myself that once I am in a better place mentally it will be fine. At least, you are right, music won't go away and it will still be there for me when this happens. How do I go about sharing a song with you ?
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- 6y
Alright. There's this one by the band Girls, Hellhole Ratrace. Quite a sad song but the chorus always reminded me that I should stay hopeful for tomorrow and that one day I'd be able to be free and dance again.
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- 6y
Tha is for sharing
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- 6y
I don’t have any ideas but I understand what you are saying completely. Music saved my life in my teens, it is the running theme of connection within my family, it expressed and validated every emotion and became a playlist of memories and feelings and accomplishments and mostly an ode to myself. Music was my lovenote to myself. I could hear a song and remember where I was it saved me and I could recognize the progress I’ve made since then. Physical proof that I felt and loved. And now music is just noise and it breaks my heart. And I’ll obsess on the fear that not connecting to music now MUST mean that I don’t connect to my family, it MUST mean that I haven’t really made progress at all, it MUST mean that I don’t feel anything anymore. But I do. I feel heartbreak and I miss it. Which means that I feel. I believe that someday I’ll hear the music again. I believe you will too. You don’t miss something that didn’t exist. Music IS real for you and me. And more than anything, because it isn’t human, it doesn’t have a timeframe that it’s available to us. Meaning: music won’t get overwhelmed by our obsessions, or limits. It doesn’t expire. Music will be there when you are able to hear it and when you are not. And it is not a fault of yours that you can’t “hear” it right now. YOU are the one that needs to be heard. And when you know you’ve been listened to, and when you are not drowning in your sounds of fear and discomfort, and you can speak your song of bravery, the music will come back to you again. If it helps, we can both recommend each other one song that is or was significant to us and I will listen to yours and you can listen to mine. I wish you luck, my friend.
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- 6y
Just tell me the song name and artist and I can look it up on my own.
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