How did music save your life?

since no one is posting anything, i thought i'd start a discussion.
any particular bands that save your life? and if so, which ones and how?

The music made me friends and most off my irl friends i meeted at last.fm ;)

i was about to kill my life but my friends stopped me =)

sometimes it's like the music speaks. it says words you desperately need to hear. the only shitty thing about that is that you eventually understand that it's not saying anything at all.
music saved my life, in more that one way, but at times it can destroy it too.

DarkEagle1988 said:
This goes out to Bittin

I must say, I've been in the exact situation as you and I fear I am having this situation again




That sucks i saw my friend hang in my Lamp she died ;( that was scary :(

Waow. I thought I was alone. My friend had an accident with his horse. 3 weeks coma and then he died. That was in the month september. I listen the song Wake Me Up When September Ends (by Green Day) constantly. Weird. It's like BARON_47 sayd music keeps me strong too. Now you all think i'm crazy because i'm only 11 years old. That's something people allways think: "She's 11 years old. She can't be so dark." Some of my friends say i listen to much emo music. I don't care. I'm gonna listen some Tokio Hotel now. The song An Deiner Seite (Ich Bin Da) makes me feel happy.

Sorry for the bad English...

losing a close friend is painful that’s true, everybody can try to understand they feeling you have/had, but non of us can really say that we know what you felt, that feeling is something that’s differed with a lot of people. (some cry, some go blank, some smoke, …)
I lost a good female-friend to how hung herself, but I’m not going to say that I know what you’re feeling cause I’ll never know, and visa versa.

Letting go is hard, but with good friends and a lot of laughs I’ll pass ^-^

I don't know if what I had was depression, cause I don't use to tell people how I'm really feeling. So last year (about since december 2006 to november/december 2007) I was feeling so bad, sad, alone, useless. I suck at school, now I got over it, my family as a family sucks, I don't match with many people, that's why I don't have a loooooot of friends, and that year was the worst. So I started listening sad music all the time, I said goodbye to some "happy" artist for listen more depressive songs, specially the song How Does It Feel by Avril Lavigne, I used to listen it all the time and thinking about suicide, writing sad things, sad draws, and all that shit, but one day I was sick of feeling like that and tried to make a change, nothing worked, but I took care of some songs, as runaway from avril, that song told me to live more relaxed, don't care about everything, and runaway. Now I still suck in almost everything, but I don't care, I lost friends,and I don't care, I've become a little bit selfish, cause I just care for myself to feel happy and comfortable with who I am. And music helped me a lot <3 I'd love to remember all that good songs, but I don't, I jsut remember it when I listen them :B

Life really sucks sometimes. You think that everything is gonna be okay and then, something happen. And is exactly in these moments that I really need music to live, to breathe or just to have straight enough to go on. And well, it never disappoint me and I'm sure it never will :)

poeticonspiracy said:
I guess my story sounds lame compared to everyone else... but I've struggled with depression since I was 12 years old and only recently (last year) I was diagnosed. I cannot tell you how many times in that 6 year period I felt hopeless and that there was nothing to live for in this world. I thought about killing myself numerous times... sad to say. But, the one thing that always stopped me from wanting to die was music. I knew that I'd always have it, and that if I left this world I would not be able to listen to the beauty of it anymore... and that is how music saved my life.

Now though my depression is much more under control and my life is great... I feel like I'm living for something again and haven't thought about suicide in years. Still music is my saviour... it keeps me sane when things get too stressful and no matter what kind of mood I am in, there is always a song out there that speaks to that mood or makes me feel better. ^^

your story doesn't sound lame at all!
and i'm glad things are better now :)
it's amazing what music can do to a person.

IronTwin said:
Last year was very hard for me. I was one step before killing myself, 'cause I couldn't hold these nightmares on. A few days ago I declared my feelings and I was rejected. I thought, that there's nothing worth to live for, so I thought, why not put an end to this shit? But I turned on my music, and I thought... "If I can't give my life to someone I love, why not give it to the music?" And now, I'm writing my own songs and thinking about forming a band.

you were rejected when you told people how you really felt? :o
good thing you decided to change your perspective on life.
how's the songwriting going?

metalfreekjose said:
Music saved my life because it was the only thing that calmed me down. I lived in a ghetto neighborhood with gangsters threatening to beat my ass and crap. I got pushed around all the time and it got to the point where I wanted to kill myself. But Music saved me when I was depressed. it cheered me up it made me feel like king of the world. lol. Yeah....good thing I ain't living in the ghetto no more yay. ^^

VERY good thing that you don't live there anymore!
music really is a lifesaver ...

For me is simple, i think that without music, my life have no sense, and maybe i'd killed myself some years ago, now i'm happy and still listening all the music I like (metal, rock, classical, etc...).

I usually keep all of this stuff for my blogs and just let my rude, overconfident and crazy side take over, but I'll write a few lines...

Music saved my life twice, actually. First time, just like FreakumDress, I was about 11 or something - my mom went to Britain and I was left alone with my motherfu... wait... gotta pick another word... asshole dad and my careless older brother. I won't go into details, but... It was hell. I went 'goth' then and got into metal. I think My Dying Bride were my total gods back then.

The second time was probably worse. It was two years ago... Truth is, I used to be overweight and was real desperate. One day I just decided to end it all. Again, I won't say much, but it was even worse - and it left some serious consequences. The worst part is that now sometimes I just think 'fuck it all...' - for no apparent reason. Sure, I DID end it all but... If anybody wants to do the same thing, just know that losing weight =/= losing problems. You'll never be happy. You'll just see some bones.

Then the only thing that saved me and the only thing that was there for me was music - and now it has become the most important thing in my life. Literally. It's more important to me than ANYTHING you can think of - it's kind of weird when the most important people in your life are five Japanese men you don't even know. I still want to cry when I think that I saw them. I think it's pretty damn obvious who they are.