Mental Health Music Monday Playlist #13

A weekly selection of three songs exploring mental health. To help you discover more songs to relate to, and artists to listen to

Jun 23, 2025

Hey there,

My computer is dead. RIP [insert 1 minute of silence here]. It did not happen in a blink of an eye, but it was a surprise, and it left me for the Electronic heaven quite fast after showing the first signs of having enough of this world about two weeks ago. It obviously made it complicated to do research and write recently. I have some almost ready content that I haven't been able to finish because I kept ending up in front of a black screen. And here I was thinking the fear of a writer was the white page syndrome, when a black one is worse.

I'm not much of a phone person. Instagram is the only thing I prefer doing on this small device. Research? I need a computer. Reading an article? Computer. Buying something? Computer. Watching a video? Computer. Writing more than two sentences? Give me a big screen with a keyboard pretty please. When I launched this newsletter, I knew some aspects of it would push me out of my comfort zone but writing this in the Notes app wasn't one of them. Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

I got my computer at the beginning of February 2021, it feels like it did not last long. But as my sister pointed out, I've used it a lot. Plus, let's be realistic, these days not many products are made to last, especially electronics. I got a bit nostalgic looking back, it did go through a lot, I have to admit. I could probably dedicate a whole "This is my love letter" to it.

Designing content for companies, watching TV series and movies (and even the Eurovision song contest in the jungle, in the middle of the night), writing, researching, making video calls, buying transports/concert/museum tickets, sending hundreds of professional emails and personal messages, etc. It went through all types of weather, from the snowy cold Finish winter to the wet Thai season and barely bearable heat of Laos and Spain, and some more countries in-between. I've bought it in Belgium where I escaped some lonely Irish lockdown, and took it back before putting it in a backpack to go on the road, where it spent most of its life. Trains, boats, planes, walks, cars, buses. Old hospitals, treehouse, caravans, farms, houses, apartments, hotels. Floors, beds, desks, tables, knees. It saw it all.

Most, if not all, of my past years' adventures would not have happened without this computer.

Can you even imagine our lives without technology nowadays?

I'm going through a big change at the moment, and it seems like my computer decided not to enter the new chapter with me. It will take me a few days to get a new one (I was in deny and hoped somehow it would miraculously fix itself and we would have many more beautiful years together), so bear with me, I promise some new content will be published soon!

In the meantime, I really didn't want to miss our Monday rendez-vous so here are three songs about mental health.