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The Struggles Of Post-Concert Syndrome

This is no joke—it’s a real thing.

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I’m sure you’ve experienced it at one point in your life, or at least, I hope you have. You go to a concert to see your absolute FAVORITE band/artist. You sit through the concert (probably not sitting the whole time because you’re jamming out to all of your favorite songs). Then in a few short hours that felt like seconds, it’s over.

You go home still buzzing from being so close to the band or artist and you feel like you’re on a musical high. Then you begin the stages of PCS, otherwise known as Post-Concert Syndrome. This is no joke -- it’s a real thing. You’ll probably spend the next two days looking up interviews, looking at your concert videos and pictures and even listening to their music while you think “I saw them in concert two days ago.”

Before the concert, you're planning the perfect outfit, listening to all of their songs and possibly stalking all of their social media accounts. You make sure all of your devices are charged and have plenty of storage for videos and pictures. Then the concert happens and you don't know what to do with yourself. You begin to experience the six stages of Post-Concert Depression, or Post-Concert Syndrome. It's a real thing, people.

1. You're tempestuous

That's a big word I know, but it just means you're full of strong emotions. You just saw your all-time-favorite artist and you're reeling. You feel like you could cry/die of happiness and you can't contain your excitement.

2. You begin the reflection process


You look through all of your concert pictures and videos. You're probably talking to your friends about how amazing the concert was and squealing with excitement over how perfect they were. At this point, you've probably posted pictures to social media and talked about how it was "the best concert ever!"

3. Realization


It begins to hit you that your favorite artist was actually in front of you, in concert, only days ago. You realize that they are actual people and they were actually in front of you. You realize that the pictures and videos are great, but actually being there in person was something you'll always remember. The feel of the crowd and actually seeing the artist perform in front of you was an amazing thing to experience.

4. Reality


You realize that you have a life to get back to and that you can't re-live all of your pictures and videos forever. You begin to feel a little depressed by this stage, so you start binge-watching videos and going through your pictures whenever you can.

5. Stalking


You begin stalking the band or artist on every social media (if you haven't been already), seeing what they're doing or where they're performing next.

6. Acceptance


You begin to accept that yes, they are real and yes, they were amazing in concert, but it's time to move on. You'll cut down on listening to their album so that you won't be reminded of "the best night of your life" and you'll carry on with your life the way you did before.

...until the next concert, that is.

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