This week’s Song of the Week was suggested by MIA reader Julianna:
“I discovered this song shortly after my psychiatric hospitalization in 2021. The song itself, I think, references some of the creator’s experiences of coming out as a trans woman, but also references experiences of suicidal ideation and finding “peace in the madness.” For me, this song brings to life the acknowledgement that mental health care often can’t give us much more than “pills and good advice.” In the song’s discussion of suicidal ideation, one lyric says “Told myself I wanna die / So how am I supposed to prove it now?” and that was something I resonated with after my hospitalization, too–I didn’t feel like anything got better after that hospitalization, but I did feel this increased sense that I needed to prove the severity of my mental illness, because my family and mental health professionals moved on and assumed I was okay so quickly.”
