[MPD-AvPD-BPD]

From long before i was diagnosed, certain songs would pull at my emotions.. I also found the louder the music, the quicker i could get out of my emotional down. Of course it all depended on the music..

however, because i find it extreamly difficult to explain my emotional state at times, i latch on to certain songs, that push and pull my emotions back to where i feel they get balanced...

Years back, extream depresion was 'solved' by listening to MJ's 'Dangerous' CD at near full blast, with me sitting between the two speakers....

Lately, Music has also become my medium to let my wife know how i feel, however most of the time i think it go's over her head completely..

Lately i've latched on several songs that i sit and listen to in the car for the hour commute to and from work. Some days its:
Alex Clare - Too close
Moby - Extreme ways
Roling Stones - Out of tears
Buno Mars - Grenade
Dr Alban - Its my life
Air Supply - All Out of Love
Timbaland/One Republic - Apologize

and on other days:
Savage Garden - Truly Madly deeply
Tailor Swift - A love story
Lifehouse - Between the raindrops
La Vuvuzela - Be mine tonight (local group)
Leann Rimes - How Do I Live

Recently (just before valentines) she heard a song and asked me to listen to it, it was 'Labrinth - beneath your beutiful'.. after listening, she said that this is her dedication to me..
The song choked me up, It explains me TO THE TEE.. and showed me that she does want to see the deep inner part of me that i've kept hidden from her for a long time...

About a week later while we were in the car en route somewhere, i decided to play another song that pulls heavy on my emotions, Mumford and Sons - I will wait. Sitting there in the car with her listening to the song, broke me, and i burst into tears, and cried infront of her for the first time in years. She's since put it on her phone as a personilised ring tone for when i call.

However this is about as far as we've gotten with sharing our emotional state with each other..

Anyway's I've found that Music plays a very important part in balancing my emotional outbreaks..

Then there are several other tracks that are have neutral meanings, or even completely lack any lyrics, i've found that also really pull on my emotional strings... like:
The XX - Intro
Counting Crows - Mr Jones
Fools Garden - Lemon Tree
Orbital - Halcyon & On & On
Kim Wilde - Cambodia (Pulsedriver version)

Does anyone else feel that bond with music..

NOTE: Savage Garden - Truly madly Deeply was released the year we started dating, and was also the first song the we heard on the radio that first morning we woke up in each others arms after a night on the town where we realized we wanted to be together, It was our wedding song, and the words are engraved into both our wedding bands..

[thesneakypanda]

Hello-
First off you have pretty great taste in music! And to answer you question yes I do very much have a similar bond to music. I listen to certain songs depending on my mood & I'm always looking for new music and discovering new music. It's what keeps me grounded and alive essentially. I think it's a great idea to tell others how you are feeling by using music. Lately, I've been listening to 'try' by Pink because it's the kind of motivation and support I need right now.

Thats a beautiful story. Thanks for sharing that. I'm personally affected by music greatly too. I find music that has no lyrics to be the most calming. If you'd like to, check out "the piano guys" on youtube. They have modern music with beautiful nature scenes. My favourite one is coldplays paradise african style. Peponi.

[GirlOfManyFaces]

Yeah! I totally agree. Although I use music to make emotions and get out what I have to say. That's why I am a singer/songwriter. The best music comes out when I'm happy and with a friend. And the darker stuff comes out when I get in a tiff with someone. So music does help me. Just in different ways.

There are certain songs I can't listen to because they cause painful emotion. But other songs pull out goodness and light.

Deifying Gravity from the musical Wicked, for some reason, changes my day to a happy one. Give it a listen.

Thanks for reading

[MPD-AvPD-BPD]

Originally Posted by kelly4519

I find music that has no lyrics to be the most calming. If you'd like to, check out "the piano guys" on youtube. They have modern music with beautiful nature scenes.

Wow thanks for this ...
Loved the few few that i listened too.. Definitely going to checkout the rest.. (So far the Mission Imposible with Lindsey Stirling is the one that pulled me the hardest)

Originally Posted by GirlOfManyFaces

Yeah! I totally agree. Although I use music to make emotions and get out what I have to say. That's why I am a singer/songwriter. The best music comes out when I'm happy and with a friend. And the darker stuff comes out when I get in a tiff with someone. So music does help me. Just in different ways.

unfortunately for me i have a face for radio, A voice for print, and Dyslexia.. So i'm out...

Originally Posted by GirlOfManyFaces

Deifying Gravity from the musical Wicked, for some reason, changes my day to a happy one. Give it a listen.

Sorry but this did nothing for me... Actually i hate (big time) Musicals. Stuff like Glee, Hairspray, etc., i turn off..

[cool09]

Absolutely. Music has been one of the only positive things in my life. That along with exercise. Outside of that there's virtually nothing for me. I took up electric and classical guitar at 14 and been playing off and on 35 years.

It definitely pulls me out of a mood. Especially when dealing with failure or rejection. Listening to music will take my mind off things. Usually I would listen to a lot of pounding classic rock. Something about feeling drums, bass, guitar, etc. in your chest and bones that is very primitive and natural. And I'm a sucker for fantastic guitar tones. I've seen all the great guitarists over the last 35 years.

I can't tell you how many times I've left family get-togethers feeling so low because I couldn't hold a conversation, enjoy myself, concentrate, put thoughts together or felt poorly and music was all that I had to turn to.

Music is one of the only things that is totally universal, athletics is another universal phenomena.