{"id":177453,"date":"2024-06-10T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T10:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=177453"},"modified":"2024-06-10T12:11:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T11:11:01","slug":"mental-health-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/06\/10\/mental-health-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(228,228,228) 75%,rgb(208,225,252) 100%)\">Yep, it&#8217;s a bit rocky again out of the blue. There&#8217;s a surprise. Not. I was reading an article about bullying and it reminded me of a lot of things.if you survive if, it&#8217;s difficult not to become that thing yourself when you misguidedly think your just trying to protect yourself. And I get triggered easily. I can often control it for a while. Months maybe then some random event sets me off, like an encounter with a footpad jumping from the shadows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1842221745&amp;color=%238c8cc8&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background:radial-gradient(rgb(228,228,228) 77%,rgb(208,225,252) 100%)\">I make music for myself but also for people I will never meet most of the time. Maybe they get the best part of the deal as they can imagine me as a far better person than I actually am with out the stress of having to interact with me face to face.  I get feedback from them and unlike me, my music travels around a lot of the english speaking world and also beyond it at times. It&#8217;s something that I may well still be able to do if I live past the point where I can comfortably stagger out to gigs if I dont go totally gaga. It makes me happier then I would be if I didn&#8217;t do it, so I have a bit of a sense of purpose to life. I suppose if I had actually got anywhere near the conventional idea of success I would have have been really insufferable, though I maybe in any case  \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(282deg,rgba(228,228,228,1.0) 0%,rgba(208,225,252,1.0) 100%)\">I do keep a diary of my mood and what I do during the day too as it helps me keep a bit of a grip on things. its most useful when my mood is very low and I have routines to keep going when i have zero motivation to do anything at all. I do run the risk of staring into space if I am not careful when I am in that zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(313deg,rgba(228,228,228,1.0) 0%,rgba(208,225,252,1.0) 100%)\">I wish I had the energy to start a band to do some of my own original music in a live format, but I just don&#8217;t have the energy to organise it now. <br><br>Getting out of bed and recording at home is nothing like having to: <br>#1 Convince people to play the music you write <br>#2 Find people that actually have the time and ability to do it<br> #3 Organise rehearsals at places that everybody can actually get to <br>#4 Convince people to play what you actually want them to play (not turning say a piano ballad into a blues tune because the song has too many chords) <br>#5 people that are good but only want to play in a very restricted and limited style, for example will play rock but not if it drifts in to say world music or jazz influence<br><br>The list could go to about a #100 but you get my drift. Also need to be local&#8230;.<br>It&#8217;s the managing to make it possible rather than the playing that is the hard part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, it&#8217;s a bit rocky again out of the blue. There&#8217;s a surprise. Not. I was reading an article about bullying and it reminded me of a lot of things.if you survive if, it&#8217;s difficult not to become that thing yourself when you misguidedly think your just trying to protect yourself. And I get triggered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/06\/10\/mental-health-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mental Health Days<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,10,60,4,3,17,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-delta-ladies","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-music","category-musings","category-other","category-piano"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Looking-west.jpg?fit=2044%2C783&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Ka9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5515,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2014\/09\/01\/get-over-yourself\/","url_meta":{"origin":177453,"position":0},"title":"Get over yourself","author":"diana Stone","date":"September 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Post by Cracked.com.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29096,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2015\/12\/31\/happy-new-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":177453,"position":1},"title":"Happy new 2016","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 31, 2015","format":"status","excerpt":"Heres wishing you everything you wish yourself in the coming year. \u00a0 \u00a0","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":178954,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/05\/12\/scary-times\/","url_meta":{"origin":177453,"position":2},"title":"Scary Times","author":"diana Stone","date":"May 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Past Careing It's been a difficult week. 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