So depressed cant listen to music

greggy

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Hey beautiful peeps, i just want to know if anyone has experienced depression so servere that they cant even listen to the music that would usually cheer them up? I just am able to listen to my music after a whole week
 

PerseverareJasmine

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Music felt almost intrusive in a way during that frame of time. If I tried to listen to music, even music that I love, at the time I felt very annoyed with it, maybe because it triggered emotions that I didn't want to be set off. I just wanted to be trapped inside my mind without any disturbances, even if that might not have been the best way to cope.
 

shyflower

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I feel that when I am depressed, listening to music just makes me cry and think too much.. no matter what the song may be. I find that having a hobby can make all the difference.. keeps your mind off of your problems and negativity.
 

S_Spartan

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Hey beautiful peeps, i just want to know if anyone has experienced depression so servere that they cant even listen to the music that would usually cheer them up? I just am able to listen to my music after a whole week

Yes, I get like this sometimes. Then what is REALLY depressing is the fact that I spent so much money on building a music library and stereo equipment over the last 2.5 decades and I don't feel like listening to it.

This has been my main hobby since the mid 80s.

But sometimes ALL music sounds like noise to me.
No matter how good the music or how good the equipment it is being played on.

Usually on those days I end up watching/listening to ASMR videos on Youtube.
 

PugofCrydee

You want to know how I got these scars?
Yea usually when I get depressed nothing can 'cheer' me up.
I have become more aware of the signs when I'm leading into those moments though.
I have a drum kit, I can sometimes put my fav songs on and play along to them which funnily enough help me feel a little better...sometimes.
 

vj288

not actually Fiona Apple
I visited my parents and sister the other day, and when I told my sister that I haven't been listening to music much lately, her response was "there is clearly something wrong with you."

Listening to music is something I've always done, so when I don't want to listen it is usually a red flag of some sort. I'm not sure what is the cause of my current decrease, it maybe just me getting older, but in the past it certainly has been a lack of any sort of desire. The process of picking what to listen to gets toilsome it feels at those points.

The music will come back to you, you'll start craving that one song and the floodgates will burst open. Be ready :militarysalute:
 

mixedupgirl

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Yes when I was goin through the darkest depression I couldn't listen to any music it just made me feel much worse for some reason.
 

Graeme1988

Hie yer hence from me heath!
Hey beautiful peeps, i just want to know if anyone has experienced depression so servere that they cant even listen to the music that would usually cheer them up? I just am able to listen to my music after a whole week

Aye, ah cun relate there, greggy. It the same fur me if ah'm really depressed. Though, ma family notice it mair than me: "Ye no' listenin' tae yer music the day?" Coz normally, ma music's blastin' as soon as ah git up in the mornin' and pissin' off the neighbour. :bigsmile:

Slightly off topic, but, even comedy cannae "cheer me up" when ah'm feelin' really depression. Y'know when yer so depressed ye cannae be arsed daein' anythin'?

But then again, ah went through a hellish depression when ah wuz 16 that ah gave playin' the guitar efter jist 2 years of lessons. It took me a wee while gittin' back intae it, but ah did, eventually.

So, hopefully, ye'll be awright eventually, mate. :thumbup:
 

MikeyC

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When I reached that point, I ran to get help, because I can't live without music.
Yeah, same here.

No matter how depressed I get, music is always available and awesome. Non-judgemental and keeps the thoughts and feelings at bay. :)
 

Angkorwat

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If I am in a depressed mood, sometimes I will not listen to any music. It is probably because I want to punish myself in some way so being stuck in my own thoughts without the distraction of music is actually extreme punishment in itself. My saboteur of my own self works in weird ways.
 

MollyBeGood

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If I am in a depressed mood, sometimes I will not listen to any music. It is probably because I want to punish myself in some way so being stuck in my own thoughts without the distraction of music is actually extreme punishment in itself. My saboteur of my own self works in weird ways.

I couldn't articulate this properly till I read your post just now.

I do the same thing.

Nice to know I am not alone.

I kinda feel like I am my own sadomasochistic worst nightmare, making my pain worse this way by keeping pleasure and help away from me. Like you say punish yourself with your own thoughts.
 

Angkorwat

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I couldn't articulate this properly till I read your post just now.

I do the same thing.

Nice to know I am not alone.

I kinda feel like I am my own sadomasochistic worst nightmare, making my pain worse this way by keeping pleasure and help away from me. Like you say punish yourself with your own thoughts.

I feel kind of better knowing that someone else does the same thing lol.
 

nerdgirl178

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Hey beautiful peeps, i just want to know if anyone has experienced depression so servere that they cant even listen to the music that would usually cheer them up? I just am able to listen to my music after a whole week

Sounds terrible. I don't suffer from depression even though it runs in my family. But back in March I went through a bad breakup and I couldn't listen to music. I was bad for a few weeks! You know its bad when you can't even listen to music!! I am so glad I am over it and now I can listen to music. Just give it time!!!
 
Usually when depressed, i am "too fragile" for most music, so at most i can only play classical/orchestral/etc at low volume (but that's the only music i really play these days, for some reason).
But the strange thing is, i often have some song/s constantly playing in my mind, & when depressed this intensifies to the extreme, such that often for the whole of each day the same song keep repeating over & over & over. Not sure if that helps the depression .. seems more like it keeps me stuck in this same-song-same-depression state (at worst, the song kept going for days on end, along with the depression)
 
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