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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!

Hello Depression by Louis Dunford

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Chris Hunter: "This song speaks to human suffering but also its seasonality and...

Rayando el Sol by Mana

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Tom Todd: "It reflects aspects of my relationships to date and some aspects...

The Monster (Explicit) by Eminem ft. Rihanna

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This Week's Song of the Week is recommended by MIA staff Carina Ruggiero: "The chorus of this song is about embracing all the "crazy"...

Galileo by Indigo Girls

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Gia Sweeney: "I love the line, "How long 'til my soul gets it...

Knockin’ Round the Zoo by James Taylor

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA staff Miranda Spencer: "This 1968 song tells of Taylor's inpatient stay as a young...

Walk A Mile In My Shoes by Joe South

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Markus Hüfner. Markus says, "The song is about putting yourself in the other...

Mad World by Tears For Fears

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Staff Karin Jervert: "A classic in my mind. This song reminds me of someone...

Don’t Take Me Alive by Steely Dan

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This week's Song of the Week was submitted by MIA Reader Jacquese Armstrong: "This song exemplifies my will to survive despite the illness and...

Dream Police by Cheap Trick

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This week's Song of the Week was suggested by MIA Reader Lupa Moon: "From 1979, Cheap Trick was speaking to me with Dream Police....

Bring Me To Life by Evanescence

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This week's Song of the Week was suggested by MIA Staff Susannah Senerchia: "To me this song screams "attachment theory" -- which, for as...

Mother by John Lennon & Ono w The Plastic Ono Band

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Reader Jarrett Rose, PhD. "John Lennon wrote Plastic Ono Band in 1970 after, and...

I Remember You by Trevor Hall

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Staff member Carina Ruggiero. She says, "This beautiful song is about returning to our Truth,...

High on Adderall by Leah Van King

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 This week's song of the week was recommended by MIA Reader Bruce Levine: "I came across the Leah Van King’s haunting 'High On Adderall'...

Holding Back The Years By Simply Red

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This week's Song of the Week comes from MIA reader James Gerlagen. He says: "Because the words describe surviving abusive neglect: 'I've wasted all...

Empty by The Cranberries

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This Week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Staff Karin Jervert: "This song always reminds me of the strange experience of being...

The Road to Maniwaki by Mark Lipman

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 This week's song of the week is an original composition by Mark Lipman from his album "The Glimmer": "This song tells the story of...

Over The Waterfall by Emily Maguire

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'If they can't find a cure this time, they'll take me away in a big white van' captures the absolute despair of rollercoaster moods, and the chilling spectre of being carted away to a locked psychiatric ward.

Benzo Blue by Richard Lewis

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by Robert Whitaker: "Richard Lewis’s Benzo Blue is mindful of how folk music has been a...

Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd

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 This week's Song of the Week was submitted by MIA reader Maureen DeSantis. She says, "This song points to the colluding phenomenon that happens...

Fire of Freedom by Matisyahu

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This week's Song of the Week is recommended by MIA staff Carina Ruggiero: "To me, this powerful song is about connecting with the fire...

Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited by The Move

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This week's Song of the Week is recommended by MIA reader Anne Marie Giordano. She says: "The song is both honest and humorous at...

Face Down in the Moment by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

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This week's Song of the Week is by MIA Reader Laura Lopez. She says: "This song represents my struggle to find my way out...

Kill Your Sons by Lou Reed

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 Song of the Week Recommendation from Bruce Levine: "Lou Reed’s “Kill Your Sons," while not as well-known as his “Walk on the Wild Side,” is...

Rusty Cage by Johnny Cash

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Song of the Week recommended by Staff Editor Miranda Spencer: "Capturing both rage and determination, this song describes that point where we say "F*ck...

Softly by Winter Aid

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Song of the Week by MIA Arts Editor Karin Jervert: "'There's and Art to falling apart like this. There's an art to smoldering bliss...
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