"If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you"
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Depression is framed here less as sadness than as numbness: a state where the primary emergency isn’t “feeling bad,” it’s feeling nothing. Fahey’s line hits because it flips the usual self-help logic. The goal isn’t happiness; the goal is sensation, proof of life. “Anything that makes you feel” is deliberately broad, almost reckless-sounding, and that’s part of the emotional honesty. When your inner world goes flat, the hierarchy of values collapses. Relief doesn’t need to be noble, articulate, or even pretty. It just needs to break through.
The subtext is both tender and dangerous. Tender, because it grants dignity to coping mechanisms that outsiders often dismiss as trivial: a song, a crush, a run, a loud night, a film that wrecks you. It argues for a kind of triage: whatever reanimates you matters more than whatever looks “healthy” on paper. Dangerous, because “anything” can include the stuff that burns you while it warms you - substances, chaos, toxic intimacy. Fahey doesn’t moralize; she’s describing how survival thinking works under psychic pressure.
As a musician, she’s also quietly making a case for art’s function at its most basic: not enlightenment, but defibrillation. Music isn’t a lifestyle accessory in this worldview; it’s a voltage. The line’s power comes from its urgency and its lack of ornament. It sounds like someone talking from inside the weather, not reporting on it from a safe distance.
The subtext is both tender and dangerous. Tender, because it grants dignity to coping mechanisms that outsiders often dismiss as trivial: a song, a crush, a run, a loud night, a film that wrecks you. It argues for a kind of triage: whatever reanimates you matters more than whatever looks “healthy” on paper. Dangerous, because “anything” can include the stuff that burns you while it warms you - substances, chaos, toxic intimacy. Fahey doesn’t moralize; she’s describing how survival thinking works under psychic pressure.
As a musician, she’s also quietly making a case for art’s function at its most basic: not enlightenment, but defibrillation. Music isn’t a lifestyle accessory in this worldview; it’s a voltage. The line’s power comes from its urgency and its lack of ornament. It sounds like someone talking from inside the weather, not reporting on it from a safe distance.
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