I was always tapping beats on my school desk...my thighs....
Grinding my teeth back and forth to the rhythm of my tapping.
My father was always telling me to stop tapping and beating my feet to a beat on the kitchen chairs.
I started playing drums 3 years ago and all that nervous tapping is finally put to good use.
Drums are so fun.
Even in my most crazy psychotic anxious states of depression it has a way of calming.
Of proving some worth to yourself.
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Hi, are you feeling any better today? I could go to town playing a drum set, it would just be fun. I'm living with my elderly parents, I stay quiet a lot because they like to complain about any noise. Sometimes I like it quiet if I'm trying to read a book, but other times the quiet just feels like coldness. I'll play some music and they will want me to turn it down. I'd rather hear music over a blaring television set.
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I’m currently taking steps toward more treatment coming soon.
I’m in a heck of a low lately.
Trying to figure out med situation.
Thank you for asking friend🙏
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Thanks for leaving such a nice comment on my post. How about drumming along to some Phil Collins??? That guy slays on the drums!!! Or a band like Poison or Bon Jovi. I grew up in the lost 80s, I don't care if my age is showing. I can play an acoustic guitar and the piano but not very well. There's a music studio that's opened up near where I live. Why is it when people get older it seems like some of them live through their kids? They send their young children there for lessons but they are too busy working or whatever to take lessons themselves. I find it rather sad. Since I'm loafing around on a permanent stay-cation on disability and I have no children, I'd like to try to take some music lessons again. Thing is, is that I bet if I do that, my parents that I have to live with will screech at me about how much money am I paying for stupid music lessons. I do pay my parents $400/month rent money. I'm just frustrated, the walls of this house are closing in on me. Be glad you're not me.
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Phil Collins is fantastic.
I never took lessons just spoke to a drummer friend of mine.
Drum have brought back a part of me that I was afraid depression had numbed for good.
Haha, welp, I'm not quite sure what I'm getting exactly. Depends on how much mula i can spend. I think I'd want maroon for the color. Yeah, I dig that.
Music? Mm jeez, I like a lot of diff kinds of music. I was just listening to Sonic Youth. I can go from that to death metal. So it really differs. I like the stooges, was listening to them earlier. Listened to Bauhaus earlier and David Bowie, and Mayhem (cause I LOVE Dead) I don't know if ur familiar with the band? But I have his corpse painted eyes tattooed on my arm. I like a LOT of male lead singers who are aggressive and also sensitive. I like Elliott Smith, I was obsessed with him for quite a long time.
I want BIG when it comes to the set. I hit hard. That's what I like about the drums. That's when all that pent up anger comes out and I fughgin like it 👍
I honestly don't play well, but I have an electric drum set that I wear headphones with and I absolutely love them! When I am really down, I get on them and just make up my own music. Very therapeutic
Music is definitely therapeutic for the soul and drumming must be the most primitive form of it. It’s something I’ve wanted to get into in the past but like others, was never able to because you need a space to do it.. I play guitar though. I was at the mall today playing Lynyrd Skynyrd with a mask on. I was the only person inGuitar Center on a weekend. Such a weird experience
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