Mental Health Awareness Week is an important time to remember to take care of ourselves and look out for our loved ones. We talk a lot about therapy, support systems, and diagnoses, which are all massively important. Today we also want to celebrate something else that’s always been there for so many of us.
Before mental health was openly discussed, a lot of people only had music to lean on. And even now, for many of us, the songs we love and the artists we return to are the ones that hold us up when nothing else does. So this week, with this year’s theme of community, we want to give a little thanks to the friend that’s always been there: music.
Because for many, especially neurodivergent people, mental health support doesn’t always come from services or systems. Sometimes, it’s a sound or a rhythm we play again and again because it’s the only thing that makes sense that day.