What Music / Song Do You Listen To When PTSD Is In Full Effect?

[Hiding the Pain]

Okay when I have my fun mood swings that my husband just loves...lol I have to plop in the ear buds and crank up some tunes so I can cool my boiling blood. What do you like to listen to when you are at your bad point. I like:

"I will not Bow" Breaking Benjamin
"Diary of Jane" Breaking Benjamin
"Until The End" Breaking Benjamin
"Animal I have Become" Three Days Grace
"Move" Thousand Foot Krutch
"Down with The Sickness" Disturbed
"Break" Three Days Grace
"Blow Me Away" Breaking Benjamin

 

[Vynne]

I listen to the Kelly Family, music from my childhood, especially Home Run II and Growing Up

I also love Linkin Park, Evanescence and Nightwish.
I listen to Eminems recovery
And some other songs :)

 

[Thinkingman85]

Metallica - "Fade to Black"

Perfect lyrics... Perfect ending melody... Perfect guitar solos... Perfect song...

 

[timid_flower]

There are so many songs.
I really like Recover by Natasha Bedingfield, it gives me hope :)
And the days I am not feeling well, I find myself always going back to this song.. It is in Spanish, so I've translated the lyrics. I'm not sure if it lost some meaning in translation, I hope not:

I return to not being
I fall again
What does anything matter if
I don't know how to laugh
I don't know how to feel

I want to hear you cry and for it to break my heart
I want to give you a kiss without thinking
I want to feel fear when you say goodbye to me
I want you to teach me to play

I know that I've become lost again
That I am once again digging up
All of that that I've gone through
And I don't even know how to explain
That all I can do is cry

Today I've stopped talking
I want to be quiet
To disguise

I want to feel something and don’t know where you start
I want my world to stop spinning
I want my hands to have strength to give

All I have left is to wait
To reinvent

 

[Marie10]

Modest Mouse "Float On"
David Bowie "Blue Jean" "Life On Mars"
Queens Of The Stone Age "Go With The Flow"
Weezer "Say It Ain't So"
REM "Orange Crush"

 

[Sailorgal]

Ah great thread!

Josh Groban - anything by this guy!!!!
No Doubt - Just a girl
Journey - Be good to yourself (my all time favorite to keep me smiling)
GoGo's - Worlds Away

 

[AS1975]

Slim Dusty, "Hard, Hard Land"

It's a hard, hard country, it's a hard, hard land,
And to live in it you've got to be a hard, hard man,
It's the vast inland regions of Australia,
Where nature alone rules the way,
She's boss of the land and it's seasons,
And her rules we have learned to obey.

There are only two seasons way up here,
It's the heat or the cold to extreme,
In the winter the icy winds chill you,
Or the cruel summer sun fiercely beams
For it's a hard, hard country, it's a hard, hard land,
And to live in it you've got to be a hard, hard man.

[Bridge]

It's a hard, hard country, it's a hard, hard land,
And to live in it you've got to be a hard, hard man,
When it rains there are oceans of water,
Spread for miles where the channel land lies,
Then the drought slowly kills ever onward,
Where there's heat waves and dust and the flies.

There are men far way out in the stock camps,
Over a hundred miles from town,
They've seen that great isolation,
That's the place where the strong men are found,
For it's a hard, hard country, it's a hard, hard land,
And to live in it you've got to be a hard, hard man.

Suits the country I love and where I love to be;)

 

[safenow]

When I am PTSDing, I do not listen to any music at all. I shun music. It doesn't speak to me, in fact it just irritates me because it is just more noise adding to the hurricane going on in my head.

When I'm feeling better, I want to listen to music. Often I will pick up on my desire to listen to music as being a clue that I'm feeling good, before I actually realize that I'm feeling good! :)

And I've tried forcing it, turning on music to try to lift my mood? Nuh-uh, doesn't work for squat. :\ Oh well! :)

I can so relate. One of my better therapist gave me a entire library of music that I enjoy as a gift. I finally let him know how grateful I am, but I can't listen to any of it until the calm returns. I am sure glad I don't have many set-back anylonger.

safenow

 

[Spiderallis]

Peter Murphy- Memory Go
Grateful Dead- He's Gone
Peter Schilling- Coming Home
David Bowie with Maynard- Bring Me the Disco King
Metallica- One
Sister Machine Gun- White Lightning
Mountain Goats- No Children

I could go on for pages... music is a big part of how I deal with things.

 

[IndigoButterfly]

I love rock but get far too caught up in the lyrics, so some very heavy bass/dubstep/trance anything heavy,loud but upbeat that I can find.

 

[AS1975]

[medio]864[/medio]

 

[Chincho]

"Hush little baby" lullaby.