To me, this song is much more than a ''metaphor for a realationship gone bad''. It represents the strugle with an illness (BPD). I am a bipolar musician. Before i was diagnosed and medicated, I would be easily inspired to write songs. Ever since I've been taken lithium, I feel like a different person, I can't write music, and I have developed a tendency to not care about anything. Sometimes, i'll stop taking my medication for a few days just to get to be myself. But then mood swings start catching up to me and things don't go too well (fighting with my best friends, missing work, etc...). For long I've wanted to drop the lithium completely, but I feel like I wouldn't be able to survive the consequences. This song represents my situation perfectly, someone who wants to ''stay in love with their sorrow'' or ''let it go'' but keeps calling back the lithium because she can't have a normal life without it.
Yes, I know Amy isn't bipolar, but I got a feeling this is what happened to Ben.
This is EXACTLY the meaning I got from this song. I don't have bipolar, but I've worked with many people with this condition during my Psych rotation. Sometimes, I've felt that we are doing them more harm with drugs than help. But then again, they need to lead a normal life as well. So I think I can understand what moosnator is saying. And I think that is what Amy is trying to say as well.
This is EXACTLY the meaning I got from this song. I don't have bipolar, but I've worked with many people with this condition during my Psych rotation. Sometimes, I've felt that we are doing them more harm with drugs than help. But then again, they need to lead a normal life as well. So I think I can understand what moosnator is saying. And I think that is what Amy is trying to say as well.
To me, this song is much more than a ''metaphor for a realationship gone bad''. It represents the strugle with an illness (BPD). I am a bipolar musician. Before i was diagnosed and medicated, I would be easily inspired to write songs. Ever since I've been taken lithium, I feel like a different person, I can't write music, and I have developed a tendency to not care about anything. Sometimes, i'll stop taking my medication for a few days just to get to be myself. But then mood swings start catching up to me and things don't go too well (fighting with my best friends, missing work, etc...). For long I've wanted to drop the lithium completely, but I feel like I wouldn't be able to survive the consequences. This song represents my situation perfectly, someone who wants to ''stay in love with their sorrow'' or ''let it go'' but keeps calling back the lithium because she can't have a normal life without it.
Yes, I know Amy isn't bipolar, but I got a feeling this is what happened to Ben.
This is EXACTLY the meaning I got from this song. I don't have bipolar, but I've worked with many people with this condition during my Psych rotation. Sometimes, I've felt that we are doing them more harm with drugs than help. But then again, they need to lead a normal life as well. So I think I can understand what moosnator is saying. And I think that is what Amy is trying to say as well.
This is EXACTLY the meaning I got from this song. I don't have bipolar, but I've worked with many people with this condition during my Psych rotation. Sometimes, I've felt that we are doing them more harm with drugs than help. But then again, they need to lead a normal life as well. So I think I can understand what moosnator is saying. And I think that is what Amy is trying to say as well.