My battle with mental illness began when I was 12 and continued on to today. It is no secret that mental illness is a never-ending battle, whether it be depression, anxiety, ADHD/ADD, PTSD, bipolar disorder, or OCD. Each person experiences it differently, with their own symptoms and their own stories.
If there is one consistency across all of them though, it would be music.
Music is a coping mechanism that we all tend to flock to. It's soothing to know that there is someone out there who has been through what you are going through. I asked everyone I know what song helped them through their mental illnesses, and this is what they said.
1. Rise Up by Andra Day
2. Scars To Your Beautiful by Alessia Cara
3. Wash It All Away by Five Finger Death Punch
4. So Many Roads by Grateful Dead
5. Move Along by The All American Rejects
6. Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace
7. Goner by twenty one pilots
8. Fix You by Coldplay
9. Light of a Clear Blue Morning by Dolly Parton
10. Question Everything by Five Finger Death Punch
11. Roger Rabbit by Sleeping With Sirens
12. Touch of Grey by Grateful Dead
13. What A Catch, Donnie by Fall Out Boy
14. You'll Be Okay by A Great Big World
15. River Flows In You by Yiruma
16. Hurricane by Halsey
17. Hurt by Nine Inch Nails
18. Leave Out All The Rest by LINKIN PARK
19. 3% by Hobo Johnson
20. Hurricane by Ms Mr
21. 1-800-273-8255 by Logic
22. Row Jimmy by Grateful Dead
23. The Middle by Jimmy Eat World
24. Dear Agony by Breaking Benjamin
25. Hear Me by Imagine Dragons
26. Truce by twenty one pilots
27. Mama Said by Cat Clyde
28. Aloha Ke Akua by Nahok and Medicine for the People
29. Never Too Late by Three Days Grace
30. Fear Is a Liar by Zach Williams
31. Little One by Highly Suspect
32. Iridescent by LINKIN PARK
33. Have You Ever Seen The Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival
34. Soldier by Gavin DeGraw
35. Secret For The Mad by Dodie
36. Malfunction by Steam Powered Giraffe
37. The Fifth Day by The Airborne Toxic Event
38. Stand In The Rain by Superchick
39. Pre-Occupied by Jon Bellion
40. Iris by Goo Goo Dolls
41. Oceans by Seafret
42. Riptide by Vance Joy
43. Skinny Love by Bon Iver
44. Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men
45. Cough Syrup by Young The Giant
46. Vienna by Billy Joel
47. Addict With A Pen by twenty one pilots
48. Anything by nirvana
49. Take On Me by a-ha
50. 27 by Fall Out Boy
51. Cancer by My Chemical Romance
52. Only Ones Who Know by Arctic Monkeys
53. Bleed It Out by LINKIN PARK
54. So It Goes by Billy Joel
55. I Hate Everything About You by Three Days Grace
56. Pills by Chase Huglin
57. Cheer Up! by A Great Big World
58. Impossible Year by Panic! At The Disco
59. Stand Tall by Childish Gambino
60. Warrior by Demi Lovato
61. Migraine by twenty one pilots
62. Do U Dig U by Q-Tip
63. Medicine by Daughter
64. I Don't Care by Fall Out Boy
65. Happier by Ed Sheeran
66. Jet Black Heart by 5 Seconds of Summer
67. The Light Behind Your Eyes by My Chemical Romance
68. Nothing Left To Say Now by Imagine Dragons
69. One More Light by LINKIN PARK
70. Get Up by Kali Uchis
71. How To Save A Life by The Fray
72. Hope by Twista ft. Faith Evans
73. She Used To Be Mine by Sara Bareilles
74. Landslide by Oh Wonder
75. Lego House by Ed Sheeran
76. Tied Together With A Smile by Taylor Swift
77. Skyscraper by Demi Lovato
78. Praying by Kesha
79. Float On by Modest Mouse
80. Swim by Jack's Mannequin
81. Damn These Vampires by The Mountain Goats
82. Keep On Keeping On by Travis McCoy
83. Survivor by Destiny's Child
84. Heavy by LINKIN PARK
85. Clean by Taylor Swift
86. You by The 1975
87. Stealing from the Faulty Plan by Phish
88. When It Rains It Pours by Twiddle
89. Oxygen by Dirty Heads
90. Last Hope by Paramore
91. Everything is Alright by Motion City Soundtrack
92. Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
93. Invisible by 5 Seconds of Summer
94. The Last Night by Skillet
95. Screen by twenty one pilots
96. River by Leon Bridges
97. Me by The 1975
98. Fight Song by Rachel Platten
99. This Is My Now by Jordin Sparks
100. If You Could See Me Now by The Script
101. Sober by Kelly Clarkson
102. I Am by AWOLNATION
103. Talkin' 2 Myself by Eminem
104. Castle of Glass by LINKIN PARK
