Whether it’s showing his support for same-sex marriage or talking candidly about his addiction, Macklemore is one of the most genuine rappers making hip-hop today. Macklemore’s 2012 Grammy-winning album with Ryan Lewis, The Heist, is chock full of references to his drinking days and the demons he fought while trying to get sober.
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Fits of rage. Depression. Mania. Addiction. Angst. These are the essential ingredients of In Utero, an album that foreshadows bipolar genius Kurt Cobain’s suicide.
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“She walks in beauty like the night.” We’ve all heard that poem. It was written by Lord Byron, the 19th-century English poet, a man who also struggled with manic depression.
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The authenticity of the psychosis, depression and anxiety remains to be seen, but take a gander at these screenshots from the game, scheduled for release on PS4 and Microsoft Windows in 2016.
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Conor Oberst, a.k.a. Bright Eyes, is perhaps the greatest songwriter of my generation. Evoking bipolar and depression, this album is as moody as it gets.
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The plight of the mentally ill is not unlike that of the gay population. Like any minority group, sometimes we feel like we are second-class citizens. Like any minority group, sometimes the mentally ill feel like they are second-class citizens. Gays and lesbians for the most part used to feel misunderstood. Ostracized. Stigmatized. In some parts of the country and in certain circles, they still do. But for those of us with bipolar and other mental illnesses, we are also stigmatized to the extreme.
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With all the fame and fortune comes great instability and hardship as with many who live in the world of celebrity. Until he got sober in 2008, Eminem had a problem with prescription drugs – particularly Vicodin, Valium, and Ambien. According to an interview with Rolling Stone, the pill-popping was intense. “In a day I could consume anywhere from 40 to 60 Valium. And Vicodin… maybe 20, 30? I don’t know. I was taking a lot of shit.”
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Rainy day albums have a distinct, mysterious quality to them. Sometimes dark. Other times quiet and delicate. Always moody. But definitely ethereal. See if any of your favorites made the list and weigh in.
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There are songs that paint a vivid picture of drug and alcohol abuse and there are songs that glorify it. For this list, I focused on the former. These are songs that describe addiction to a T. Most of these artists know what it’s like to be stuck in the spider hole of addiction. They’ve lived to tell these cautionary tales.
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We’ve all encountered people who don’t understand our disease. Whether they’re ignorant and don’t believe bipolar is a real affliction or they just can’t comprehend it, there will always be naysayers or those who can’t sympathize. Here’s a roundup of questions and statements we with bipolar hate being asked or told.
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