Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Song of the Week

Mad in America wants to know what songs you listen to that relate to your experience of psychiatry, or your thoughts and opinions about it. Check out the Staff Recommendations that have been published over the last few months and add your own by submitting here. Your song may be featured in our Song of the Week highlight and shared on Mad in America’s social media!

Crave by For King & Country

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Reader Courtney Christianson: "After being involuntarily hospitalized, I felt stripped of my dignity and...

It’s My Life by Bon Jovi

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This week's song of the week was recommended by MIA Reader Mary Dahl: "This song expresses the energy and courage I feel in my...

The Weeping Song by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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This week's song of the week was recommended by MIA Reader Joss Mack: "Psychiatry takes my weeping, makes it a pathology, then causes me...

Obolus by Thrones

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This week's song of the week was submitted by MIA Personal Stories Editor Emmeline Mead: "In Greek mythology, an Obolus was a coin used...

They’re Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha – The Beatles (Parody by Stevie...

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This week's Song of the Week was submitted by MIA reader Larry Baxter: "This is a memorable song I heard while "vacationing" at the...

Liberation by Marlena Kolesinska

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This week's Song of the Week is an original composition by MIA Reader and MIA Co-arting attendee, Marlena Kolesinska: "I wrote this song with...

One More Light by Linkin Park

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This week's Song of the week was recommended by MIA Reader Lora Barnas: "When applied thoughtfully and well, the science of psychiatry can be...

Walk With Me by Michael Skinner

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This week's song of the week was recommended by MIA Reader Michael Skinner: "I had a life as a husband, father, professional musician and...

Spartakus, Aram Hatchaturian by Ion Marin

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by Tomaž Makovec: "Probably the most beautiful composition in the previous century. Harmony, art, as in...

Diagnosis by Alanis Morissette

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA writer and contributor J.A. Carter-Winward: "Back in the early 00s, I vaguely recall hearing...

Crazy by Gnarls Barkley

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 This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Reader Nina Fedorski. Nina says: "This song is very longing and lonely, but insightful...

It’s Alright by Mother, Mother

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This week's song of the week was recommended by MIA Reader Harper West: "As a psychotherapist, I use the song in mindful self-compassion group...

What Do You Hear in these Sounds? by Dar Williams

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Reader Judith Fox: "I had a great cognitive behavioral therapist. She helped me change...

Testimony by Ferron

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Reader Grace Nichols: "This song so well describes how women are asked to be...

It’s Madness by Marvin Gaye

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Reader EZELL BATTLE: "The lyrics to this song are haunting. When you first listen,...

Everyone’s Afraid of an Angry Woman: Honoring Sinéad O’Connor

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In her tragic passing, I choose to honor her by raising up these words she said, by hearing and believing them.

Bohemian Polypharmacy by James McCormack

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA founder Robert Whitaker: "I first heard James McCormack’s Bohemian Polypharmacy—a parody of Queen’s Bohemian...

Make Me An Instrument by Nancy Rubenstein

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This week's Song of the Week is recommended and recorded by MIA Reader Nancy Rubenstein: "My advocacy began with fury when I learned the...

Various Stages by The Great Lake Swimmers

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Mike Fraumeni: "Having been through many ups and lows in my life and...

We Can Do Hard Things by Tish Melton

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA staff Carina Ruggiero: "The rich lyrics of this song inspired me through the medication...

Spirits Will Collide by Devin Townsend

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Staff James Moore: "In this song, Devin Townsend reflects on feelings of suicide and...

21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Adrian Bailey: "As a young man in 1969 when this was released, and...

Bob Marley & The Wailers – Redemption Song

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Staff Carina Ruggiero: "This is the last song on Bob Marley's final album before...

B. WiZe – “Just Smile ft. Roshawn Eve” and “Words I Still Have To...

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by reader Jim Flannery: "This song is a mix of two songs by B. WiZe -...

I Want to Break Free by Queen

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This weeks Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Z: "Treatment and (mis)diagnoses of mental illness as a result of a relationship...