I definitely agree music helps and my wife seems to do better with music on and we listen to a number of Youtube concerts.

Do listen to Joni Mitchell singing Both Sides Now at Newport 2022. She's then 78, recovering from a brain aneurysm, difficulty walking, but sings beautifully. It's funny I argued with my therapist, I mentioned a song and said you couldn't help but cry, She said listen to happy songs and rattled off a few but none of them were really good, good songs strike you at the heart and deal with the challenges we face, long, loss, etc.

My son is a board certified music therapist. It is incredible the many ingenous ways they can use music.

joni is a featured artist in my therapy jukebox, bobby. singing along with joni was a major coping tool for surviving childhood in the kiddie whorehouses. she brought to my knees in her performance with the chieftains.

wildcat
does your son use recorded or live music in his therapy? when i learned about music therapy in the 60's, it was all live. the last time i checked around the turn of the millennium, i found only recorded music therapy. i still hold listening to music as a spectator sport. it's hard for me to listen and channel at the same time.

Yup, arfie, I DO have a therapy song. As you know, a bad psychiatrist over prescribed Seroquel for my PTSD nightmares and damaged my kidneys with CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) on top of PTSD. When by the time it reached my feet my blood didn't get supply enough oxygen for them from my kidneys, the nerves in my legs died painfully from the knee down.

That neuropathy pain turned to numbness, then, and I had to use a cane, crutches, and even a wheel chair to get around. I began to stumble and fall a lot. CKD is chronic and not curable, just as PTSD is, and so now I was stuck with double trouble coping with these two diseases. It was really disheartening.

I was lucky enough to have a musician friend Mike, though, who saw my plight and passed this song along to pick me up, literally. It's "Everyone Will Crawl" by Charlie Sexton, the guitarist in Bob Dylan's backup band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MDutSt-Odw

The title helped me feel less terminally unique. The chorus really helped me work hard at getting up out of that wheel chair and walking again, even on numb legs. It says:

"I climbed up on the mountain and I snuck up on The Man
With my notebook of stone wide open and my chisel in my hand
I said, 'How come things are so tough down here? How come we all must fall?' He said, 'How you gonna learn to walk? How you gonna learn to run? How you gonna learn to fly? Until you learn to crawl?'"

Mike died a sudden untimely death, so now I imagine him up there on the mountain with The Man. In my imagination Mike and God look down on me from heaven to see how I'm putting to use this gift of a song they gave me.

I have weekly leg function relapses nowadays for which I have to take a day out from being able to walk and then start walking all over again. So I use this therapy song a lot. I'm really grateful for it.

is that leonard cohen i see standing between mike and god?

good choice of therapy song, a solid reminder that itsy bitsy baby steps will get you somewhere.

Music sure does help especially when my brain is on hyperventilating

amen, rose.
music doth soothe the savage beast.

I love listening to music as well.... Often songs I grew up with and some of them are being rerecorded by some wonderful new artists

There's a British man who's voice I love that was recently on a talent show... Tom Ball....

Music touches my heart and soul at times to Arf... xo

Sound of Silence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PslzPdz_6G8

tom ball's version is slow and spooky. i like it.

i was 12 years old and beginning to feel the wall of cultural silence and stigma in 1966 toward child prostitutes when the simon and garfunkle version was released. the sounds of silence are burned onto my soul.

"fools said i, you do not know
"silence like a cancer grows."

Huge hug sweetie... xo