{"id":681342,"date":"2016-09-08T09:23:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T13:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/?p=681342"},"modified":"2016-09-08T09:23:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T13:23:32","slug":"music-mental-health-afterthoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/2016\/09\/08\/music-mental-health-afterthoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Music &amp; Mental Health: Afterthoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-642092\" src=\"http:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/07\/ImadeHeadshot-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ImadeHeadshot\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/07\/ImadeHeadshot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/07\/ImadeHeadshot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/07\/ImadeHeadshot.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I couldn\u2019t wash the dishes without crying on Labor Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sardi\u2019s Chicken is a healing space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Frontwoman and guitarist Adrienne Smith, of the blues\/rock band The Dirty Middle, briefly said much of her songwriting is inspired by depression in her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredericknewspost.com\/news\/arts_and_entertainment\/goddess-jam-will-deliver-divine-music-it-s-written-in\/article_daa21ea2-599a-53c3-8e05-023b0ddbe7ed.html\"><i>72 Hours<\/i> interview<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">All of this is related. Just follow me for a second.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Due to stigma, mental health is pushed to the periphery of our discussions, though mental health affects almost everything we touch. Stigma means crying in bathrooms and by kitchen sinks out of a sense of failure for not being able to live a normal life. But what is a normal life if millions of people don\u2019t talk about their mental illness? Doesn\u2019t that make mental illness normal?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Stigma also means I can\u2019t cry in the middle of Sardi\u2019s because their chicken gives me the will to live and love again. I can\u2019t say to a Sardi\u2019s employee that I come to their store as an act of self-care when depression makes my life feel unbearable. I can\u2019t say that their green sauce makes me want to inquire about part-time positions for an infinite supply of Sardi\u2019s. No, I just devour my rotisserie chicken in silence and try to contain my happiness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Artists who speak out about mental health bring the joy and pain of living with mental illness into view. The Dirty Middle\u2019s Adrienne Smith used just two sentences for her revolutionary act. Any statement, no matter how short or long, undermines stigmas and promotes the truth that mental health is not an afterthought. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn\u2019t wash the dishes without crying on Labor Day. Sardi\u2019s Chicken is a healing space. Frontwoman and guitarist Adrienne Smith, of the blues\/rock band The Dirty Middle, briefly said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-681342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}