Song of the Week

Mad in America wants to know what songs you listen to that relate to your experience of psychiatry, or your thoughts and opinions about it. Check out the Staff Recommendations that have been published over the last few months and add your own by submitting here. Your song may be featured in our Song of the Week highlight and shared on Mad in America’s social media!

Make Me An Instrument by Nancy Rubenstein

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This week's Song of the Week is recommended and recorded by MIA Reader Nancy Rubenstein: "My advocacy began with fury when I learned the...

Various Stages by The Great Lake Swimmers

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Mike Fraumeni: "Having been through many ups and lows in my life and...

We Can Do Hard Things by Tish Melton

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA staff Carina Ruggiero: "The rich lyrics of this song inspired me through the medication...

Spirits Will Collide by Devin Townsend

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Staff James Moore: "In this song, Devin Townsend reflects on feelings of suicide and...

21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Adrian Bailey: "As a young man in 1969 when this was released, and...

Bob Marley & The Wailers – Redemption Song

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Staff Carina Ruggiero: "This is the last song on Bob Marley's final album before...

B. WiZe – “Just Smile ft. Roshawn Eve” and “Words I Still Have To...

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by reader Jim Flannery: "This song is a mix of two songs by B. WiZe -...

I Want to Break Free by Queen

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This weeks Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Z: "Treatment and (mis)diagnoses of mental illness as a result of a relationship...

I’ll Be Your Mirror by The Velvet Underground

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This Week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Janet Sing: "I believe that the job of a mental health care provider...

Mother’s Little Helper by the Rolling Stones

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Peter C Gøtzsche: "This song describes the abuse of benzodiazepines among people who...

Twisted by Joni Mitchell

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA staff Karin Jervert: "I never knew this song existed until a few months ago...

Times Like These by the Foo Fighters covered by Chris Paige

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This week's Song of the Week is from Chris Paige, LCSW is a licensed therapist/coach and the founder/executive director of the Institute for Akathisia...

Hi Ren by Ren

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Reader Ronald Bassman: "I watched this powerful video performance several times - it gave...

Blue Monk by Abbey Lincoln

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This weeks Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Reader Tim Wilson: "I have played this song numerous times in jazz bands. It...

Brave by Sara Bareilles

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Founder Robert Whitaker: "Watching this video fills me with joy every time. It’s such...

All Is Soft Inside by AURORA

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Chris: "This song perfectly describes the fears, hopes, and obstacles we carry while...

Hello Depression by Louis Dunford

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Chris Hunter: "This song speaks to human suffering but also its seasonality and...

Rayando el Sol by Mana

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Tom Todd: "It reflects aspects of my relationships to date and some aspects...

The Monster (Explicit) by Eminem ft. Rihanna

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This Week's Song of the Week is recommended by MIA staff Carina Ruggiero: "The chorus of this song is about embracing all the "crazy"...

Galileo by Indigo Girls

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Gia Sweeney: "I love the line, "How long 'til my soul gets it...

Knockin’ Round the Zoo by James Taylor

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA staff Miranda Spencer: "This 1968 song tells of Taylor's inpatient stay as a young...

Walk A Mile In My Shoes by Joe South

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Markus Hüfner. Markus says, "The song is about putting yourself in the other...

Mad World by Tears For Fears

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This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA Staff Karin Jervert: "A classic in my mind. This song reminds me of someone...

Don’t Take Me Alive by Steely Dan

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This week's Song of the Week was submitted by MIA Reader Jacquese Armstrong: "This song exemplifies my will to survive despite the illness and...

Dream Police by Cheap Trick

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This week's Song of the Week was suggested by MIA Reader Lupa Moon: "From 1979, Cheap Trick was speaking to me with Dream Police....