I like the way you've written your post from hindsight perspective. It shows that you have been there, done that, in a way that acknowledges what other people who havent yet moved onward in thier progress might be feeling and does so in a way that doesn't shame them into feeling guilty about what they might currently be doing to help them cope with their feelings of sadness. I was like this too, finding comfort and relief in sad songs, or songs that 'raged against the machine' but over a process of time I began to think that what I had been putting into myself as comfort might actually be contributing to the inescable cycle I felt myself to be stuck in.

Isn't music, in some ways, like a drug? We turn it on to tune out other things that might be distracting us, it guides towards some emotion we might want to experience more of, or, in some cases, away from those emotions. I think of it like the way I used alcohol in the past to self medicate. It can bring temporary relief, but, in some ways, adds more smoke to the haze.

Just as I've needed to uncomplicate my life by using less alcohol, I've also learned to be more selective in what types of music I expose myself to. Great post!